[WikiEN-l] That random number

[Yonatan Horan]

It seems to me like more of a case of being afraid of getting sued (which is
of course a legitimate concern IMO and a very reasonable one considering the
current situation) than being afraid of a lawsuit that actually has a legal
ground. From what I've seen, the companies were making a case that the
numbers are copyrighted (if this assumption is wrong, you can skip to the
last sentence), which seems like a bullshit claim in a country where
copyright depends on creativity. If there is a successful [copyright
law-related] lawsuit (against digg or whomever) it'll be a sad day. Deleting
these e-mails from WMF servers doesn't mean we should just as well delete
e-mails concerning possibly libelous information, etc. as there is no threat
of a probable lawsuit like there is in this case.

-Yonatan

On 5/6/07, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
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> Danny
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> In a message dated 5/5/2007 10:51:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> delirium at hackish.org writes:
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> Are you  going to suggest we purge all emails that ever mentioned
> potential libels,  too, in all the arguments over WP:OFFICE?  Rather than
> imagining that  the sky will fall, imagine the consequences of excessive
> paranoia.
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