2009/9/21 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>om>:
----- "WereSpielChequers"
<werespielchequers(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm more concerned about what happens when
something is posted to our
> site that is unfair, inaccurate and full of malice. Presumably
> Wikimedia in the US is the publisher
I understand that the Foundation claim that they are
not the publisher of
Wikipedia, just the "operator". So if an editor posts something on Wikipedia
the foundation has the same legal liability as, for instance, an ISP which
hosts a website containing problematic content.
I don't know if this has ever been tested in court.
Yes in the US. WMF said they weren't suable over the content because
of CDA section 230 and the case was immediately thrown out on that
basis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act
I suppose another country could deem WMF the publisher under their own
laws. (They could deem a piece of cheese the publisher.)
- d.