[Foundation-l] Board meeting in Rotterdam later this week

teun spaans teun.spaans at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 07:00:14 UTC 2007


> The biggest error I see here is that people are trying to limit language
> versions of Wikipedia so that they comply with the laws of the country
> where the language is primarily spoken. But that's fruitless. The
> Italian Wikipedia (hosted in Florida) isn't under Italian law just
> because it's in Italian. Nor are Italian citizens liable for something
> on the Italian Wikipedia just because the page is in Italian.

I politely disagree. When the person doing something has the Italian
nationality, and the person commits the act from italian territory,
and the claiment is italian, an italian judge might well decide to
consider the claim, despite the servers being in the us.



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