A slide deck titled "Mission-driven law" prepared for presentation to students from Thomas Jefferson law school who visited the WMF offices on March 19th, 2014. It is thematically focused on how WMF's legal team supports the mission of the organization.

1. Mission-Driven Law
WMF Legal and
Wikimedia’s global mission
Luis Villa, Deputy GC

2. About us

3. 12 projects

4. 70,000 monthly
contributors

5. 500,000,000
readers a month

6. ~ 160 employees

7. six lawyers,
one paralegal,
one tiger

8. our mission

9. “empower and engage people around the
world to collect and develop educational
content under a free license or in the
public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally” (link)

10. “empower and engage people around the
world to collect and develop educational
content under a free license or in the
public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally”

11. “empower and engage people around the
world to collect and develop educational
content under a free license or in the
public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally”

12. “empower and engage people around the
world to collect and develop educational
content under a free license or in the
public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally”

13. “empower and engage people around the
world to collect and develop educational
content under a free license or in the
public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally”

14. legal supports all of those

15. “empower … people … to
develop educational content”

16. fight for content
creators

17. protect
privacy

18. develop
products

19. aid
community

20. “empower … to collect”

21. public
domain

22. fair
use

23. advocacy

24. “around the world”

25. jurisdiction!

26. Wikipedia
Zero

27. censorship

28. global
organizations

29. “under a
free license”

30. free
culture

31. free
software

32. “effectively”

33. trademark™

34. Terms of Use

35. nuts and
bolts

36. Thanks!
lvilla@wikimedia.org
lu.is / User:LuisV (WMF)
@tieguy

37. Image attributions in order of use
Under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted
● Couverture-wikimedia, from many sources
● Wikimania 2013 Group Photograph, by
Qweaz
● Geoff_Brigham_1, Villa,_Luis_4.11.2013,
and Michelle_Paulson_009, by Myleen
Hollero
● Stephen_LaPorte, by Matthew (WMF)
● Welinder,_Yana_June_2013, and
Voinigescu,_Andrei_Nov_2013, by Myleen
Hollero
● Daisy_Chen-2, by Matthew (WMF)
● Rory_Tiger_(7), by Matthew Roth, under
CC BY-SA 2.0
● Courtroom, by Fayerollinson
● Paper_bag_mask_with_4chan_smiley_at_Anon
_raid, by THERKD
● HumanizingArticles_new, by Vibhabamba
● Legal_I_talk,_Lecture_Theatre_TU201,
_Hong_Kong_Polytechnic_University_-
_20130810-05, by Smuconlaw
● Cinderella1819, scan of work in the
public domain
● Fawiki_licensing_tutorial_with_fair_use,
by Mmxx
● European_Commission_flags, by Sébastien
Bertrand
● Nairobi_-_Wikipedia_Zero_-_258A0346, by
Omaranabulsi
● Soviet_censorship_with_Stalin2, scan of
works in the public domain
● Wikimedia_chapters, public domain
● Creative_Commons_Swag_Contest_2007_2_
(by), by tyler.stefanich, under CC BY
3.0 US
● Richard_stallman, by boro
● Cocacola-5cents-1900, scan of work in
the public domain
● Civil_War_Red_Tape_01_
(redeemed_CSA_bond_coupons), by Godot13,
National Numismatic Collection at the
Smithsonian Institution
● Tightening_the_bolts_at_Turbine_No_24_-
_geograph.org.uk_-_798160, by Paul
Anderson