Tomos at Wikipedia wrote:
In U.S. context, I guess admins may be held liable if they do not delete obscene or defamatory content after a notice/objection from a user. (Or is it the project as a whole rather than admins which would be held liable?)
It's pretty hard to find anything these days that meets the legal definition of 'obscene' in U.S. law. But there are lots of things that aren't legally obscene (mainstream hardcore pornography, for example) that of course have no place on wikipedia.
Defamation is another matter.
But I don't see any liability for sysops for these things. The project as a whole could be liable, but "good faith" counts for a lot with the courts -- if anyone notifies us that they want something taken down, then in *most* cases, we'll just take it down. The "good part" of the DMCA gives me a "safe harbor" for lots of things like that.
The bounds of good taste should keep us very very far from the bounds of the law.
--Jimbo