The Legal Team handles everything to do with copyrights, licenses, etc. for content and software and helps the Tiki Software Community Association.

Release responsibilities

• Check the licenses of all newly included or updated code.

Urgent

• Protect Trademarks
  • Send letters out to people using our trademark without permission because if we don't protect, we weaken our position

Tasks (do and cross out)

• Assist for Tiki Software Community Association administrative setup.
• Gather/manage all the official paper work of the association (Incorporation, etc.)
• Write up privacy policy
• Write up Terms of Service
• Write up a confidentiality agreement
  • When someone gets admin access to tiki.org (and even more when it's a dump of the data), we would want a confidentiality agreement.

Questions

Tiki footer emails say: "Tiki®, TikiWiki®, and the Tiki logo are registered trademarks of the Tiki Software Community Association.", but I am pretty sure the logo is not covered. Do we keep or change this sentence?

Projects

• Coordinate with Team from WVU Entrepreneurship Clinic of the West Virginia University College of Law for 2013-2014 school year.
• Determine acceptable uses of Tiki Trademarks
  • Write up something like http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/legal/fraud-report/index.html
• Prepare a plan
  • http://doc.tiki.org/Creative+Commons+Attribution-ShareAlike+License
• In collaboration with Finance Team and Fundraising Team, determine if we should become a 501c

Ongoing responsibilities

• Official Association yearly filing with the government (Nelson)
  • If this is this the same as:
  • Maintain TSCA Certificate of Status
    • Procedure: Log in at Oncorp (https://www.oncorp.com/oncorphome/Pages/index.aspx), a private company that handles corporate registrations. The log-in credentials are at Clipperz.io in the "Tiki" account. Note: Credentials didn't work on Sept. 15, 2022 so I've emailed Oncorp for help and will update the info. - Follow online instructions
  • Most-recent update: 2018 (dl1952)
• About tiki.org usage -> License, privacy policy, Terms of Service, Copyrights, etc

Who

Related links

• http://www.harmonyagreements.org/
• http://producingoss.com/en/legal.html
• http://fossology.org/
• http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
• http://opensourcematters.org/license-trademark-and-copyright.html
• “Terms of Service; Didn't Read” (short: ToS;DR)
• http://www.ifosslr.org/
• http://contributoragreements.org/
• http://collabmark.org/
• https://opensource.com/business/16/2/how-choose-brand-name-open-source-project
• http://fossmarks.org/
• https://opensource.com/business/16/3/kill-off-extra-brand-names