[WikiEN-l] Asking for free images on living bios

[Armed Blowfish]

On 27/09/2007, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27/09/2007, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Well, not everyone lives in the US.
>>
>> The UK passed Human Rights Act 1998 in response
>> to the European Convention on Human Rights.
>
> Wikimedia is not subject to UK law in any meaningful sense.
> Try and pay attention.
>
> --
> geni

Yes, actually, Wikimedia is, in the sense that in the UK, material
is considered published in the location where it is read.  For
material on the internet, that is the whole world.  Non-British
people have sued non-British people in the UK for defamation.
I don't know about foreigners suing foreigners for privacy
violations in the UK, but privacy does seem to be covered by
the same part of the Human Rights Act as defamation, so I
wouldn't rule it out.

http://www.globaljournalist.org/magazine/2004-2/libel-tourism.html