[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

[David Gerard]

On 6 September 2012 01:46, Kelly Kay <kkay at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Today the Wikimedia Foundation filed a
> suit<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_complaint_for_declaratory_judgement_September_2012.pdf>
> in
> San Francisco against Internet Brands seeking a judicial declaration that
> Internet Brands has no lawful right to impede, disrupt or block the
> creation of a new travel oriented, Wikimedia Foundation-owned website in
> response to the request of Wikimedia community volunteers.


I urge everyone to read through the PDF. To be clear: IB is attacking
the freedom to fork; WMF is defending the freedom of free content.


- d.