On 21/04/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21/04/2008, Sam Blacketer
<sam.blacketer(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:02 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > In any case wikipedia currently hosts at
least one article that would
> > appear to be in contempt of a UK court ruling which some might feel is
> > more of a concern.
> In fact the information is spread on several
articles. It seems that no
> English court has attempted to enforce contempt of court on foreign
> publications (though one Judge seems keen to try it with defamation
> actions). Would the article talk pages benefit from a reminder that the law
> on whether British editors are subject to the injunction is as yet untested,
> or would this just draw attention?
Could people please provide links when they bring up a
specific example?
They're in the UK (as are you and I), so I for one don't want to know.
And I make a point of not touching the articles of UK-based article
subjects with any reputation for litigousness - there's quite enough
admins based in the US to deal with that sort of thing.
- d.