Lexelerator's goal is to support SMEs, SME clusters and digital ecosystems in e-business to get acquainted with legal issues affecting e-business. For this purpose, information tools such as the legal Wiki are created and the users are provided with interactive on-line tools for sharing of experience and knowledge, such as forums and blogs. Lexelerator results from the LEKTOR project, a specific support action of FP6, funded by the European Commission. Details about the project itself can be found at: www.ubique.org/lektor

PLATFORM GOVERNANCE

General
Lexelerator content is written collaboratively by project partners, contributors and users without geographical limits. The legal Wiki articles and the Blogs can be created and edited by the contributors, qualified  registered users with specific knowledge in legal issues for e-business. Registered users can comment and tag content, and create discussion forums. In every article of the legal Wiki or the Blog, links will guide the user to associated content that usually contain additional information and add value to the original article. Anyone of the above mentioned users (contributors and registered users) is welcome to add information, cross-references or citations, as long as they do so within Lexelerator's editing policies and to an appropriate standard.

LEKTOR editing policies
Due to its main scope – to promote the knowledge and exchange of legal issues for e-business, in particular for SMEs – Lexelerator's editing policies are slightly restricted in comparison to, for example, Wikipedia. Content creators can be categorised into three groups, each with a different "activities portfolio":

Group 1: Webmaster/Administrator: Members of this group accumulate the portfolii of Group2 and 3 plus can add/edit/delete static web pages; accredit contributors; take down unrelated, unlawful or outdated content.
Group 2: Contributors: Can create legal Wiki articles or Blogs; can edit legal Wiki articles; display their profile at the contributors' page; have all the portfolio of Group3.
Group 3: Registered users: Can Comment and tag legal Wiki articles; comment and tag Blogs; create and comment fora.

Taking down/deleting content:
Lexelerator is a platform dedicated to one topic: legal issues for e-business. Thus, contributions must be related to this. Any other content will be taken down. Where there is a doubt about the lawfulness of content (e.g. up-loaded pictures or documents that might be © protected), this content will be equally taken down. Furthermore, outdated content (e.g. old or no more maintained fora) will be deleted.

Rights and obligations of contributors and users:
Lexelerator is a collaborative effort that benefits most where most users are involved. Thus, users are consumers and creators and controllers. They should display the necessary diligence that they would use in their normal business activities to keep the standard level of contributions high. However, they cannot be held responsible for any use made of their contributions (see Disclaimer).

Privacy
The Lexelerator platform complies with EU legislation concerning privacy and data protection.
If you are logged in, you will be identified by your user name. This may be your real name if you so choose, or you may choose to publish under a pseudonym or acronym, whatever user name you selected when you created your account. Your e-mail address under which you registered is not visible to the users of the platform.

Contributors decide which profile they want to publish on the contributors' webpage. This page is meant as visibility tool to show the expertise of the respective contributor and can be changed/amended at will by the contributor. The inclusion of contact details in the text is possible if so wished by the contributor. Apart from this case, the platform does not support direct contacts among users. If a user wants to contact another user outside a Blog or Forum or for another purpose, (s)he can contact the webmaster (under "contact us").

IPR – Intellectual Property Rights 
The Lexelerator platform is based on the sharing and collaborative paradigm of Web 2.0 tools. Thus, its content is open to the public according to the principles of Creative Commons non-commercial licence (www.creativecommons.org). Where text is identified as, reference is made to, or a quotation made of a source that is identified, the © of the source is applicable. This is equally valid for links' targets and their content. Where in doubt, contact the webmaster or the given copyright owner.
The technical infrastructure of Lexelerator is based on Drupal Open Source.
Drupal is based on the open source philosophy of collaborative free software development and is licensed under the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.)  Drupal is itself open source and builds on and supports other open source projects.  Specifically, Drupal is coded in the open source scripting language PHP and supports as primary data sources the open source database formats MySQL and Postgresql. For more details, see: drupal.org

DISCLAIMER
The aim and purpose of the  Lexelerator platform is to raise awareness of legal issues in e-business and allow exchange on legal experiences, not to give legal advice. It is intended to provide relevant legal information to anyone involved or interested in e-business and to provide these users with tools that support the exchange of legal knowledge in the field of e-business. The Lexelerator platform is created as a project under FP6 IST programme, funded by the European Commission. The contractors endeavour to deliver a high level service. This is reflected in the access rules to change informative content such as the legal Wiki and Blogs as well as to the general requirement of registration. Notwithstanding these precautions, no guarantee can be given on the correctness or completeness of the information provided and neither the European Commission nor the platform provider can be held responsible or may be held accountable for the use it is made of, nor any loss or damage suffered as a result of reliance upon the services of the Lexelerator platform. In particular, whereas the highest diligence is used as far as up-loaded documents or hyperlinks are concerned, the platform providers and good-faith users and contributors cannot be held liable for any infringement of existing laws caused on or by linked pages or documents.

Furthermore, please note that any information given does not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Commission.