[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

[Ray Saintonge]

Mike Godwin wrote:
> Nathan writes:
>   
>> Interesting. Although the Italian media also reported that I (and
>> Jimbo and various others) was being sued for 50 million euros, and I
>> haven't seen that lawsuit yet.
>>     
> We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating in
> Italy. In the majority of those cases, Wikimedia Foundation itself never
> receives service of process -- in effect, the cases only really "exist" in
> Italian media. I'm not saying that's the case here, but we haven't heard
> anything yet from Italian process servers yet.
>
> I'd like to see any official complaints that have been filed in Italian
> courts (or elsewhere) against Wikimedia Italia. The chapter's defense (the
> chapter doesn't produce Wikipedia content) should be straightforward under
> any European legal regime, but obviously we will take an interest in any
> case that seems to be going the wrong way.
>   

The underlying wisdom appears to be: "Don't defend a lawsuit until 
there's a lawsuit."

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