Nicholas Moreau wrote:
Perhaps this isn't the best time to create a legal entity around Wikimedia Canada.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070419.wwikipedia0420/B...
Could this guy add us to his lawsuit, even though we have no control over the content of the site, even less so than the Wikimedia Foundation does? Under US law, the Foundation is fine if they comply and take down offending content at request of the offendee, but we'd be under Canadian law, and I don't know if like provisions exist.
I think that it's wonderful that Crookes should be responsible for an increase in traffic to this list. :-P
How could the prospective Wikimedia Canada possibly be sued for something that allegedly happened before it was created?
Crookes seems to be developping a reputation for barratry. He seems to have filed his case against Wikipedia here in B.C., hoping to rely on laws relating to the reciprocal enforcement of judgements to collect in Florida. As I read that law it seems to apply only to judgements that relate to debt.
In general terms anybody can sue anybody. There's no requirement that the suit be a winning one.
Ec