Sorry...but this is ridiculous. There are billions of domains owned by people who aren't sued. I own 50 with 5 of those with content on them. Barcamp.org has been in existence under one person in trust of others for 5 years and has WAY more liability potential (live events all over the world that are uninsured?).
Can we ban the 'what if' litigious paranoia from this discussion? Is there some sort of Godwin's law <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law> for this? Oh...and I'm reading 'Life Without Lawyers<http://www.amazon.com/Life-Without-Lawyers-Liberating-Americans/dp/0393065669>' right now by Philip Howard. Highly recommended. You can also get the cliff notes on his TED Talk <http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_howard.html>. Basically talking about liberating Americans from going overboard with this sort of legal what if. Let's have constructive discussions here. Tara On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Laban Johnson <labanjohn...@gmail.com>wrote: > > This an opportunity for the coworking community to demonstrate the > effectiveness and awesomeness of its core values, such as collaboration and > openness. > > I own a domain which is valued at $900,000. That's really nothing - the > estimated value of http://www.twitter.com is: *$855,408,000, *and the > estimated value of http://www.facebook.com is: *$1,848,000,000* > > Coworking.com is already a Page Rank 5, and its value will be what YOU make > of it. Doesn't each and every co-worker have some interest in whatever > becomes of coworking.com? > > A domain name is an asset and all assets have liabilities. Imaginable or > not, people take pot shots at anything worth something, including web sites. > Web sites are sued all the time just for existing - ask @ev. > > A domain name must be owned by someone or some*thing*, and while it can be > held by one person in trust for a group, won't you want to protect that > person and the group from potential liability and losses by establishing > some sort of structure legal structure which allow for such openness and > collaboration without having to "go all corporate", such as a cooperative? > Isn't it worth doing something if it can be both an asset and a protection? > > ;) > > Laban > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Tara Hunt <horsepig...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Exactly why do people want to set up a charitable organization? What would >> it get us? >> >> The buying of the domain was the first time that money has come into the >> equation and that was an anomaly IMO. Alex offered clear advantages and a >> choice for those who wanted to be part of it (nobody was forced to >> contribute and they knew exactly what they would get out of it). >> >> T >> >> -- >> tara 'missrogue' hunt >> >> Book: The Whuffie Factor (http://www.thewhuffiefactor.com) >> Blog: HorsePigCow: Marketing Uncommon (http://horsepigcow.com) >> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/missrogue >> phone: 514-679-2951 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- tara 'missrogue' hunt Book: The Whuffie Factor (http://www.thewhuffiefactor.com) Blog: HorsePigCow: Marketing Uncommon (http://horsepigcow.com) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/missrogue phone: 514-679-2951 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
