[WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Foundation sued

Daniel R. Tobias dan at tobias.name
Sun Mar 25 15:02:04 UTC 2007


Apparently, literary agent [[Barbara Bauer]] has sued a number of 
people and organizations, including the Wikimedia Foundation, for 
defamation because of their involvement in making or publicizing 
allegations that Bauer's services are a scam because she insists on 
payment up front from authors (where normal industry practice is for 
agents to collect only after the author's works sell) and has 
apparently sold few or none of her clients' works to anything other 
than vanity presses.  She has made it onto the Science Fiction 
Writers of America's "20 worst agents" list (they're another of the 
defendants in the suit).  She has a long record of threatening suits 
against sites and forums that criticize her, at one point demanding a 
billion dollars for unauthorized use of her name as the title of a 
forum thread asking a question about her business practices.
http://forums.writersweekly.com/viewtopic.php?p=44820

If anybody's interested, the suit is docket number L-001169-07 in 
Monmouth County, New Jersey, where it can be looked up here:
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/acms/disc/CV0227W0E.ASP
It's one of the many court sites that make it a pain to link to their 
stuff because they use a form-post interface for document retrieval.

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