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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:02 PM, geni wrote:
On 21/04/2008, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)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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