I was honored by the invite to give a talk at the Post Status Publish conference last Thursday. Thanks again to Krosgard for the invitation – it was a great event, that I hope was not bogged down too much by a late afternoon discussion of legal issues. My original topic was “WordPress + the Law”, but I changed the title slightly to “WordPress + the Law(suit)”: I used some of the many lawsuits we see against Automattic as examples of the legal issues that hosts, users, developers working with WordPress might see.
At the beginning of my talk, I laid out three general principals for dealing with legal threats that we follow at Automattic. Now doing this short follow up post to flesh out those principles a bit more, since a few people asked about them after the talk.
Automattic’s Approach to Legal Threats
Cut Through the Noise, Don’t be Intimidated. We receive a lot of legal threats. Some of them become actual lawsuits, but the vast majority do not. Most legal complaints relate to content that we host, that someone has a problem with. We steadfastly defend our users’ rights, though we do remove things that are truly harmful or not allowed
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14002/wordpress-and-the-law-suit-automattic-s-response-to-legal-threats
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/wordpress-and-the-lawsuit-automattics-response-to-legal-threats/
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