Would the WMF itself be liable under this new law for content that editors had published
on Italian Wikipedia? I don’t read Italian but from the sound of the information at
http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/19256/Italy-s-proposed-libel-law-…
it sounds like the WMF in addition to editors could be liable. If this is the case then
WMF itself may want to get involved.
Pine
From: Thehelpfulone
Sent: Saturday, 03 November, 2012 06:10
To: Advocacy Advisory Group for WMF LCA
Subject: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Italian Wikipedia community discussing defamation bill
There is now a further plea at the Wikimedia Forum (on Meta-Wiki):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#it.wiki_in_trouble.2C_once_….
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Thehelpfulone
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone
On 25 October 2012 00:32, Pierre-Carl Langlais <pierre-carl.langlais(a)orange.fr>
wrote:
I,
I have just written a general account of this second italian « strike » on my French
wikipedian blog :
http://wikitrekk.blogspot.fr/2012/10/remake-italien.html
Pierre-Carl Langlais aka Alexander Doria
That banner is live, i believe.
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Stephen LaPorte
<slaporte(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello,
The Italian Senate is debating the defamation bill that the Italian
Wikipedia community previously protested. The community is discussing their
response here:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Oggi_il_Senato_vota_…
Here is a Google translation of some proposed banner text:
Dear readers,
once again the independence of Wikipedia is under threat.
In these hours, the Italian Senate is debating a bill on defamation ( DDL n.
3491 ) which, if approved, would require each site (including Wikipedia) the
correction or deletion of your content on simple request those who
considered damaging to their image or their privacy, and provides for the
criminal conviction and fines of up to € 100,000 in the case of failure to
remove. Similar initiatives are not new , but this time their approval seems
imminent.
Wikipedia recognizes the right to the protection of the reputation of each
and volunteers that contribute for free already strive daily to ensure it.
The approval of this standard, however, be obliged to alter the content
regardless of their veracity . Such a requirement would distort the
fundamental principles of Wikipedia, would be an unacceptable restriction of
its autonomy and a grave threat to the activity of its 15 million volunteers
around the world, who would be inclined to stop dealing with specific topics
or characters, even only "no problems."
Wikipedia is the largest collective work in the history of the human race in
12 years has become part of the habits of millions of Internet users in
search of a knowledge-neutral, free and above all free. The Italian edition
has almost a million entries, receiving 16 million visits every day, but
this rule may obscure them forever.
The Encyclopedia is the heritage of all. We will not allow it disappears.
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