[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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