On 26 Apr 2009 at 09:24:54 -0700 (PDT), Ken Arromdee wrote:
From the Foundation-L post:
we sent a letter to Wikipedia Art that was aimed, not to threaten legal action, but to outline what our legal concerns were, and to try to begin a negotiation to resolve the matter amicably -- ideally by switching the domain name over to us, but not by requiring any content changes on their site at all.
This is disingenuous. A letter sent by a law firm "to outline our legal concerns" which uses legal language and tells a site that they will settle matters amicably if they meet a demand is a legal threat. It may not actually include the words "or we will sue you", but trying to spin it as not being a legal threat is absurd.
It certainly would be interpreted as one if it were something written on-wiki by somebody an admin wanted to ban under the WP:NLT policy.