[WikiEN-l] Update: Floricic vs Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

[Mathias Schindler]

Hi,

today there was a hearing at the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, Berlin 
(municipal court) about the preliminary injunction against the German 
Verein. The injunction was prohibiting Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. to 
redirect wikipedia.de to the German Wikipedia as long as the full civil 
name of a dead hacker ([[en:Tron (hacker)]]) is shown at de.wikipedia.org.

In the hearing, the judge gave more than just a hint that he does not 
agree with the argument from Tron's parents that telling a (already 
publicly known) civil name is violating the post-mortem 
Persönlichkeitsrecht (right of personality).

The decision, whether the preliminary injunction is withdrawn will be 
announced on thursday at 9 a.m. (CET).

Here are two reports from the court hearing:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/69056 (the author was present at 
the hearing)

http://www.golem.de/0601/43060.html (I am not sure if he was there)


There is one question left and I would love to see some research from 
you. Ivo Floricic, the owner of the trademark "Tron" and father of Boris 
Floricic (aka. [[en:Tron (hacker)]] claims that he thinks that he is the 
only one with the name "Floricic" in Germany and these special 
circumstances would somehow violate his rights if wikipedia is 
mentioning the full name of Tron.

Does anyone know any other person by the name of Floricic?

According to Google, there is an artist "Alen Floricic" from Croatia who 
might be notable (if he is notable, it would be nice to consider taking 
the CV from certain sites and write an article about him). There is also 
a professor of linguistics, Franck Floricic from France.

Greetings,
Mathias