Ok, that relates to an actual case we had in arbitration, Irismeister, who I
understand is a Romanian practitioner with a Iridology practice in Paris.
Should he sue, in a Paris court, he would presumably win, and with a French
affiliate have someone he could get his "legal" hands on. How exposed are
we? If he requested removal of all his contributions, could we easily comply
technically? That is, do we have software which would easily allow removal
of all of someone's edits?
Actually I see little harm in removing every article he ever edited, as we
have a capacity to regenerate, like a lizard who has lost his tail.
Fred
From: Jean-Baptiste Soufron
<jbsoufron(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:08:41 +0200
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: no PD in France
>
> Does this mean that a French author can sue us for using work that he
> voluntarily contributed to Wikipedia? Assuming the author's work has
> monetary value more than zero, then the zero we are paying him is by
> necessity more than 7/12 less than what it is really worth. Are we
> legally different in this case than a commercial publisher who
> convinces
> someone to sign away his rights for much less than they're worth?
Well, at least he could try to sue. I am not sure he would get remedies
for a non-commercial use, but he could certainly obtain to forbid you
to us his work any longer.
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