On 5/3/07, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/3/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
If they do DMCA Wired, then Wired get to go first!
According to [[Universal v. Reimerdes]], DeCSS was a single case that included all defendants. Does one party 'go first' in cases like this?
MPAA would loose nothing by including Wikipedia in a suit against Wired even if we only linked to the Wired article that published it, after all that was the crux of the latter part of the DeCSS case: 2600 deep linking to other publishers.
The thing is, the WMF, unlike Wired, is not a publisher, or at least is going to claim it's not a publisher. So the two cases would be inherently different.
Anthony