[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

[Brian]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> Mike Godwin, 16/09/2009 07:54:
> > We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating
> in
> > Italy. In the majority of those cases, Wikimedia Foundation itself never
> > receives service of process -- in effect, the cases only really "exist"
> in
> > Italian media. I'm not saying that's the case here, but we haven't heard
> > anything yet from Italian process servers yet.
>
> I want to be clear: this message is offensive to Wikimedia Italia.
>
> Nemo


To restate, there is a tendency in Italy for a media sensation to be made of
purportedly legal matters when no legal actual legal processes have been
initiated, and  no legal documents drafted. As you can see, the statement
has nothing to do with Wikimedia Italia.