[WikiEN-l] Fwd: FW: Billboard chart data licensing

[Justin Cormack]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 09:50 -0600, Kelly Martin wrote:
> On 11/15/05, Brandon Cordy <b.touch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's an email I got from the Business Development associate at VNU Media:
> >
> > Please tell the appropriate person at Wikepedia to contact me as soon as
> > possible. As Sam noted, the current use of our content on your site is not
> > permissible without a licensing agreement. Therefore we would like to
> > resolve the issue quickly. Thanks again for bringing this to our
> > attention.
> >
> > Best,
> > Ben
> 
> It is better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission, especially
> when dealing with people who think you need to pay them money to get
> permission to do things you can do without asking for it in the first
> place.
> 
> Let this be a lesson to you.

No its not a lesson. Wikipedia is too big to hide any more. We have
to deal with this sort of thing.

So do we
(a) remove all references
(b) Tell them that they can sue us as they have no legal basis for their
extortion

Better run this past a lawyer asap.

Justinc