[WikiEN-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

Aude audevivere at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 19:08:14 UTC 2008


Also, the foundation's tax status would be impacted.

Anyway, there was enough outcry over the "Virgin" logo in the fundraising
banner in the 2006/2007 fundraiser.  I don't think advertising be acceptable
to a large portion of our community.

-Aude


On 3/10/08, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I note that carrying ads would mean we would be profiting from cases
> of copyright infringement, libel, defamation etc. on our site, which
> might be detrimental to our ability to easily wriggle out of lawsuits.
>
> -Matt
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Aude


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