[WikiEN-l] Press coverage listing the HD-DVD key

[Anthony]

On 5/3/07, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/3/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If they do DMCA Wired, then Wired get to go first!
>
> According to [[Universal v. Reimerdes]], DeCSS was a single case that
> included all defendants.  Does one party 'go first' in cases like
> this?
>
> MPAA would loose nothing by including Wikipedia in a suit against
> Wired even if we only linked to the Wired article that published it,
> after all that was the crux of the latter part of the DeCSS case: 2600
> deep linking to other publishers.
>
The thing is, the WMF, unlike Wired, is not a publisher, or at least
is going to claim it's not a publisher.  So the two cases would be
inherently different.

Anthony