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/…
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