This is not a legal issue. The only legal issue is the possibility of libel. If it is not a matter of libel then the question is for the community. I notice that diStefano never claimed libel. He appears to be bringing the action under much vaguer provisions of Italian defamation laws. He knows perfectly well he has no claim under US libel law. IANAL, but this seems fairly obvious. He lso does not appear to be claiming that anything actually in the present article is defamatory.
Revisions to policy taken under the threat of bullying will inevitably be disastrous.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:02 PM, geni wrote:
On 21/04/2008, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
I can certainly understand. We have about 200 folks who want to keep Giovanno di Stefano, a monstrosity that is entirely uncontrollable. I wonder how many of them are willing to spend hours, week, months, years monitoring it.
What about researching it?
In any case wikipedia currently hosts at least one article that would appear to be in contempt of a UK court ruling which some might feel is more of a concern.
The community should not be deciding legal issues like this. If something is clear-cut in its legal issues to a non-lawyer (copyvio, obvious libel) then it should be dealt with on a community level. If "some might feel" something the community has no business making these decisions.
-Phil
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