Thomas Dalton wrote:
(Please excuse the extensive quoting, I decided it really was necessary to include the 3 preceding emails for my email to make sense.)
No problem. Your past quotation practices have been tended to foreshoten the background to what you say a little too much.
C. No publisher is listed on the title page.
The publisher is Wikipedia, surely? That's stated in plenty of places
Surely not. Wikipedia is not an entity. The Wikimedia Foundation is an entity, but they specifically state that they are not publishers.
Ok, I don't know about the legal definitions, but by the everyday meaning of the word, the WMF is the publisher. They are the one that makes the content available to the public, that's what the word means.
Perhaps then it would be good to read what distinction you make between a publisher and an ISP. I think that it is a distinction that would be crucial in any legal dispute.
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