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O que é o Programa de Assistência com Despesas Jurídicas?

O Programa de Assistência com Despesas Jurídicas é uma iniciativa proposta pela Fundação Wikimedia (WMF) de auxiliar usuários que desempenhem papéis relevantes no caso improvável de que enfrentem uma ação jurídica como réus devido ao seus papéis nos projetos da Wikimedia. O programa pode ser acionado, a critério exclusivo da WMF, para fornecer assistência a esses membros da comunidade na busca por advogados qualificados, ou para custear parcial ou integralmente as despesas associadas com a defesa legal, deste modo auxiliando sua defesa, se necessária, contra processos legais.

Quem pode ser coberto pelo Programa de Assistência com Despesas Jurídicas?

O Programa de Assistência com Despesas Jurídicas pode fornecer assistência a usuários que dediquem tempo e esforços e desempenhem papéis relevantes a qualquer projeto da Wikimedia, na qualidade de administradores, mediadores, porta-vozes, membros da governância, stewards e burocratas.

O programa visa cobrir usuários elegíveis dentro de papéis relevantes em todos os projetos da Wikimedia, independente do idioma ou do país. A cobertura está sujeita a critério exclusivo da WMF.

O que o Programa de Assistência com Despesas Jurídicas será capaz de fazer?

O Programa de Assistência com Despesas Jurídicas será capaz de encontrar advogados qualificados ou custear parcial ou integralmente as despesas associadas à defesa dos usuários elegíveis em papéis relevantes na ocasião desses serem intimados juridicamente como réus devido a seus papéis nos projetos da Wikimedia. Essa assistência, por exemplo, poderia tomar a forma de um pagamento de honorários advocatícios, ou manter esse membro da comunidade em contato com advogados externos. O programa não cobrirá, entretanto, quaisquer danos ou multas resultantes do processo legal.

A WMF reserva a si o direito de decidir se (e quanto) fornecerá fundos para o custeio de despesas jurídicas atreladas a um advogado em particular. Queremos nos certificar de que os fundos do programas serão utilizados para fornecer a melhor representação possível com advogados que conhecem as leis de determinado país e a tecnologia e valores do movimento Wikimedia. A WMF trabalha com uma extensa rede de advogados internacionais diariamente, e estará reservado o direito ao Departmaneto de Advocacia Legal e Comunitária de fazer recomendações com base nessa experiência.

Se você é um usuário exercendo um papel relevante e está enfrentando sérias ameaças ou ações legais, aja rapidamente contratando um advogado qualificado para proteger todos os seus direitos. Para solicitar fundos de assistência, entre em contato em legal wikimedia org.

Please include a copy of the legal document(s) you have received. For legal and ethical reasons, the WMF and its lawyers cannot create an attorney–client relationship with any user. Through the Legal Fees Assistance Program, however, the WMF may be able to identify a qualified outside lawyer, and, subject to local laws, WMF may provide funds for some or all of the fees and costs of such an outside lawyer. The WMF cannot itself act as an lawyer on behalf of a user.

Why is the WMF doing this?

Like many in our community, users in support roles are critical to Wikimedia projects, and their hard work and dedication ensure that the wider community can carry out its mission of promoting free knowledge. Such support also helps the future of the Wikimedia projects. See #How will the Legal Fees Assistance Program help Wikimedia projects?

WMF has a policy of possibly helping eligible editors, photographers, and other contributors facing legal threats on a case-by-case basis, and the Legal Fees Assistance Program does not change this policy. See Defense of Contributors for more information.

Why does this program not currently cover all contributors?

All of our contributors are valued for the work they do, regardless of their user rights. For that reason, historically the Foundation has assisted contributors who have found themselves the object of legal threats. That assistance has taken on different forms, including helping locate pro bono lawyers, offering assistance in a defense, fighting off lawyer threats against the content posted by contributors, or filing defensive (and expensive) litigation defending against attacks relating to that content. Indeed, the Legal department successfully pushes back on about 95% of the serious legal threats to content that we receive a year (the remaining mostly resulting in DMCA takedown notices). So we take the work of contributors and their defense seriously. For that reason, we wrote the Defense of Contributors policy last year covering all contributors, including editors.

As far as we can tell, this is the first time that any major website has offered a program like the one proposed here. In defining scope, we want to start with a smaller group that can be easily identified, which constitutes the approximately 7,500 users in support roles. We want to see how this works and, if it works, will consider later whether anything more comprehensive would be feasible, taking into account potentially different legal and financial considerations and parameters.

Much of law is shaped by how courts interpret it, and, depending on the jurisdiction, the outcomes of individual cases can have a lasting impact on law as a whole. As a result, even if a case doesn’t directly implicate the WMF or its employees, it could have long-term effects on others’ ability to use and maintain the various Wikimedia projects. While legal actions are extremely unusual, by providing legal defense funds in those rare cases under the terms of the program, we not only support our community but help to guard against outcomes that could create bad precedent.

Will the Wikimedia Foundation tell recipients of assistance how to conduct their defense or that they must take a particular action?

No. Legal ethical rules prohibit the WMF from telling a user’s lawyer how to conduct his or her defense. The user and the lawyer will make all legal strategic decisions.

Does this mean the Wikimedia Foundation will be the lawyer for people who get assistance?

No. For legal and ethical reasons, the WMF cannot create an attorney–client relationship with any user. Through the Legal Fees Assistance Program, the WMF may introduce an outside lawyer to these users, and, subject to local laws, the WMF may provide funds for some or all of the fees and costs of an outside lawyer. However, the WMF will not itself act as an lawyer on behalf of a user.

The Legal Fees Assistance Program might – at the sole discretion of the WMF – provide funds for the legal fees and costs of a user in a support role, recommend a lawyer, provide information to a lawyer hired by a user, or help find a lawyer particularly knowledgeable about Wikimedia projects or country-specific laws.

No. WMF will earmark a set amount of funding for the Legal Fees Assistance Program; if the program used all of that money, WMF would decide whether or not to renew it.

No. Although the funding decisions are not yet finalized, program funding will likely come from reserve funds. Funding for the Legal Fees Assistance Program will not have an impact on funding levels for other projects.

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