[WikiEN-l] Yet another legal threat

[K P]

On 3/31/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>
> In this thread:
> http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=7820
>
> somebody allegedly associated with The American Mutoscope and
> Biograph Company is threatening to sue Wikipedia over his company
> being "done wrong".
>
> From what I can gather, the company of that name was active in the
> early days of motion pictures, from the 1890s through the 1920s, but
> faded out and went completely out of business by the 1930s.  Somebody
> with no apparent true connection with the original company went into
> business in the 1990s under that name (long after all of the original
> company's copyrights and trademarks had lapsed into the public
> domain), and is making questionable claims at being the legitimate
> continuer of the original company's tradition, along with some other
> wacky claims such as saying they have purchased land on the Moon on
> which they soon will be filming movies.
>
> Of course, Wikipedia is "evil" because it fails to take all of this
> guy's claims at face value, and persists in having an article about
> the classic original company (which is legitimately notable in the
> early history of the movie industry) with only a brief paragraph
> noting the existence of an unrelated new company of the same name.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mutoscope_and_Biograph_Company
>
> Naturally, this guy's claims and whines are getting a favorable
> reception over on Wikipedia Review, where they see no anti-Wikipedia
> rant they don't like.
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Why is the "new" company even mentioned in the article on American Mutoscope
and Biography--as other than a redirect to its own stub (probably notable
enough to earn a wittle stubby) ?


>>"In 2003, Biograph announced that it had acquired title to 1,777 acres
>>on the Moon for use as a filming location, and Thomas R. Bond II
>>stated that he planned to start filming there by 2008.[24]"

>The guy's a kook, evidently.

>James Farrar james.farrar at gmail.com

There are plenty of notable kooks, though.

KP