On 12/9/05, Steve Block steve.block@myrealbox.com wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 12/8/05, Steve Block steve.block@myrealbox.com wrote:
Okay then, let me try another tack which has occurred to me given the Wikipedia stance on "fair use".
How is a commercial reuser going to feel when it is issued with a writ?
Probably not very good. What do you suggest we do about this?
Remove libel. As I responded to Kim, the next question is which libel laws we have to wrry about. In which countries are suits likely to be brought? Australia and the United Kingdom look likely candidates, any others?
We already do remove libel.
As for which libel laws we have to worry about, assuming by "we" you mean the foundation, none, we don't have to worry about any libel laws. We should remove libel because it's false information, and we don't keep false information in the encyclopedia. To the extent that any country defines true information as libel, we should ignore it.
Anthony