Ok, that relates to an actual case we had in arbitration, Irismeister, who I understand is a Romanian practitioner with a Iridology practice in Paris. Should he sue, in a Paris court, he would presumably win, and with a French affiliate have someone he could get his "legal" hands on. How exposed are we? If he requested removal of all his contributions, could we easily comply technically? That is, do we have software which would easily allow removal of all of someone's edits?
Actually I see little harm in removing every article he ever edited, as we have a capacity to regenerate, like a lizard who has lost his tail.
Fred
From: Jean-Baptiste Soufron jbsoufron@gmail.com Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:08:41 +0200 To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: no PD in France
Does this mean that a French author can sue us for using work that he voluntarily contributed to Wikipedia? Assuming the author's work has monetary value more than zero, then the zero we are paying him is by necessity more than 7/12 less than what it is really worth. Are we legally different in this case than a commercial publisher who convinces someone to sign away his rights for much less than they're worth?
Well, at least he could try to sue. I am not sure he would get remedies for a non-commercial use, but he could certainly obtain to forbid you to us his work any longer.
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