Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Open-Calls:Compliance-With-Laws
💡 In simple words: Different countries have different laws. WikiDeal has rule pages saying who is responsible for what. This page is a future call for ideas to check those rules with legal experts, country by country. Not open yet.
🎯 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): Draft open call, under construction, wave 2, not yet launched. WikiDeal policies, adapted from Wikimedia governance, contain global responsibility clauses. This call would invite legal reviews: identifying ambiguities and risks, examining adaptation to each country's law, and gathering concordant or discordant legal opinions. A first example is the Terms of Use responsibility clause. Scope and deadline to be defined.
| Open Call Status | |
|---|---|
| Wave | Second Wave (Draft) |
| Status | Not launched yet |
| Members / Commission | Undetermined (Under construction) |
| Chairperson | TBD |
| Facilitator | TBD |
Open call: compliance with laws (draft, under construction)
| Status | Draft, under construction, not yet launched |
| Wave | 2 |
| Deadline | To be defined at launch |
| Awards | To be defined |
| How to propose | Not open yet |
What this call is intended to be about
WikiDeal policies are largely adapted from Wikimedia governance and contain global clauses about the responsibilities of users. These clauses raise a challenge: they are written once, globally, but they would apply to users living under the law of many different countries. This creates ambiguities and potential legal risks that deserve a careful review.
A first example (there would be others): the responsibility clause of the Terms of Use, which states that users are legally responsible for their edits and contributions, their contracts, their interactions with other users and their reuse of published content. To what extent such a global clause holds in each jurisdiction is an open question.
This draft call is intended to invite legal opinions (avis de droit) produced by volunteer or semi-volunteer contributors with a legal background. Concordant and discordant opinions would both be welcome: the goal is a documented, plural view of how these global policies of responsibilities would be adapted to the law of each country.
Status
This is a wave 2 draft: it is announced as an upcoming open call and is not yet launched. Scope, awards and deadline are intended to be defined at launch. The general rules of the Open Call would apply, in particular the rules of the game.