Board/Minutes/2021-04-16

Agenda and action items

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Date and time: Friday 16 April 2021, 14:00 UTC - Countdown
Acronyms

Participants

Board members

• Allan Mustard (Chairing)
• Eugene Alvin Villar
• Guillaume Rischard
• Jean-Marc Liotier
• Tobias Knerr
• Rory McCann

Not Present

• Mikel Maron

Officers and board
Biographies

Guests

Not open to observers.

Draft attribution guidelines

Background The Licensing Working Group (LWG) had created a draft attribution guideline , which was subsequently modified by the board. After meetings of the board with Member representatives on attribution (Jun and Oct 2020) and with LWG members (Oct 2020), the board version was modified.

December meeting to:

• Publish the current document after giving the Working Group (LWG) a heads up tonight.
• Ask LWG to summarise the points they still consider open from the comments on that document and ask Dermot McNally (LWG member), who has no conflict of interest, to present that report at the next LWG meeting. (# Dermot has been asked and agreed to do it).
• Rory to work with external counsel to try to find the solutions to these issues that are most favourable to us.

The board received an answer from Kyle Mitchell (Intellectual Property lawyer suggested by Allen Gunn), who was contacted to provide external legal advice on the draft attribution guidelines. The initial email was approved by Dermot McNally (Working Group) and included the current draft of the attribution guidelines and a list of questions. Related: 2021/Res11: Authorise Allan to send attribution guideline letter to Intellectual Property lawyer.

Attribution related meetings, excluding recurring board and LWG meetings

• 2020-12-04 Board and LWG meeting (Dermot McNally) on draft attribution guidelines - The meeting was set-up in short time. The LWG was invited but only Dermot McNally could participate in such short notice.
• 2020-10-15 Board and LWG meeting on draft attribution guidelines
• 2020-10-09 Board and AB Corporate Members representatives meeting
• 2020-10-02 Session Make progress on attribution guidelines and enforcement, during board screen-to-screen October meeting
• 2020-06-22 Board and AB Corporate Members representatives meeting

Attribution related board minutes

• 2021: Jan Attribution guidelines update, Feb Attribution guidelines update (mid month board chat), Apr Mitchell's response regarding attribution guidelines and ODbL
• 2020: Jan Attribution and lack thereof, Apr Update on LWG's rewrite of attribution policy, May Status of Attribution policy, Status of Facebook attribution issue on mobile, Jun Status, Meeting with Corporate Members of the Advisory Board on attribution, Oct screen-to-screen discussion, update, Nov update 1, update 2, Dec update (informal board chat), update (public board meeting).
• 2019 Oct Attribution by Facebook.

Attribution guidance related LWG minutes

• 2021: Jan Attribution guidelines, Feb Attribution guidelines gap list and board status update on outside counsel
• 2020: Jan (“Twitter attribution thread”), Feb, Mar, Apr, Jul,

Aug, Oct, Nov

• 2019: Jan, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
• 2018: Dec

OSMF members related discussions:

• Attribution guideline status update: 2019 Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
• Attribution: board letter to Facebook: 2019 Oct, Nov

Draft minutes on the board wiki.

Action items

• Allan to provide Kyle Mitchell's email with preliminary feedback to the Licensing Working Group
• Tobias to look at the current board document, to clarify/modify points of contention in order to complete the draft and provide it to the board, preferably by the next board meeting.