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"but current laws regulating legal organizations prevents the creation of an analogous organization" Which legal/regulatory aspects prevents orgs like the EFF
by kawera 15y ago
"but current laws regulating legal organizations prevents the creation of an analogous organization"
Which legal/regulatory aspects prevents orgs like the EFF to be created in Brazil? I know foundations are very cumbersome to start and operate, as it is about everywhere else, but I thought it was pretty easy to start other forms of NGOs down here?
Could you clarify? I'm genuinely interested.
- malandrew 15y agoI personally cannot explain the problem. I think it was some sort of rule governing what bar-licensed lawyers can and cannot do or what an organization of lawyers can do. It's one of those rules that is like Rule #1 of the Screen Actors Guild. The person to ask about it is Marcel Leonardi. Marcel is one of the few lawyers in Brazil genuinely proactive with respect to internet rights in Brazil. A few years ago he spent some time interning at the EFF in the US via a grant given to him by Google. He is now part of Google's general council in Brazil and AFAIK still works largely on issues of internet rights. The following is his first article on the his experience at the EFF and the possibility of founding such an organization in Brazil. However this article was written before he encountered these legal hurdles. I don't know if he wrote specifically about the legal hurdles or if we simply discussed them in person over lunch. http://leonardi.adv.br/2010/01/eff-minha-experiencia-e-as-possibilidades-de-uma-entidade-similar-no-brasil/ http://leonardi.adv.br/2010/01/eff-minha-experiencia-e-as-po... If you want to know more or want to get involved, I'd contact him, since he can better explain the legal hurdles to creating an analogous organization in Brazil.