On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 09:50 -0600, Kelly Martin wrote:
On 11/15/05, Brandon Cordy b.touch@gmail.com wrote:
Here's an email I got from the Business Development associate at VNU Media:
Please tell the appropriate person at Wikepedia to contact me as soon as possible. As Sam noted, the current use of our content on your site is not permissible without a licensing agreement. Therefore we would like to resolve the issue quickly. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.
Best, Ben
It is better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission, especially when dealing with people who think you need to pay them money to get permission to do things you can do without asking for it in the first place.
Let this be a lesson to you.
No its not a lesson. Wikipedia is too big to hide any more. We have to deal with this sort of thing.
So do we (a) remove all references (b) Tell them that they can sue us as they have no legal basis for their extortion
Better run this past a lawyer asap.
Justinc