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

[Armed Blowfish]

So, if someone tries to sue WM in the UK, successfully or
otherwise, WM's plan is to... ignore it?

Fascinating.

On 27/09/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27/09/2007, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> I know. That is why I included the words meaningful sense. The
>>> foundation has no assets UK courts can get their hands on thus
>>> anyjudgement is going to have very little practical effect.
>>
>> How exactly does a large organisation plan to hide from the world?
>
> It doesn't have to hide from the world, it just has to not have any
> assets in the United Kingdom. This is not particularly difficult so
> long as you don't have a habit of getting drunk and playing "let's buy
> a new office, someone throw a pin at the map to find out where", and
> I think we can reasonably assume we're safe from that.
>
>> In any case:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK
>
> A non-issue. Astonishingly, people who actually understand UK law
> have been involved in this, and it is not a legal liability to Wikimedia.
> We made that very very very very very clear...
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk