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Wikimedia's First GC Prepares to Tread 'Legal Minefield'

GC South

September 7, 2006

Bradford Patrick left his job as a litigator with a National Law Journal 250 firm in Florida to become the GC of the not-for-profit group Wikimedia Foundation Inc., which operates one of the most talked-about Web sites in the world, the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that, according to its Web site, "anyone can edit," and has some 13,000 active contributors working on 3.8 million articles in 100 languages. It is also a "legal minefield," according to Patrick.

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