[Advocacy Advisors] Italian Wikipedia community discussing defamation bill

Sat Nov 3 17:00:55 UTC 2012

Would the WMF itself be liable under this new law for content that editors had published on Italian Wikipedia? I don’t read Italian but from the sound of the information at http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/19256/Italy-s-proposed-libel-law-meets-strong-media-opposition.html it sounds like the WMF in addition to editors could be liable. If this is the case then WMF itself may want to get involved.

Pine

From: Thehelpfulone 
Sent: Saturday, 03 November, 2012 06:10
To: Advocacy Advisory Group for WMF LCA 
Subject: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Italian Wikipedia community discussing defamation bill

There is now a further plea at the Wikimedia Forum (on Meta-Wiki): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#it.wiki_in_trouble.2C_once_again.2C_this_time_is_worse_than_last_year. 

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On 25 October 2012 00:32, Pierre-Carl Langlais <pierre-carl.langlais at orange.fr> wrote:

  I,

  I have just written a general account of this second italian « strike » on my French wikipedian blog : http://wikitrekk.blogspot.fr/2012/10/remake-italien.html

  Pierre-Carl Langlais aka Alexander Doria 

    That banner is live, i believe.
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    Director, Community Advocacy
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    philippe at wikimedia.org

    On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Stephen LaPorte
    <slaporte at wikimedia.org> wrote:

      Hello,

      The Italian Senate is debating the defamation bill that the Italian
      Wikipedia community previously protested. The community is discussing their
      response here:
      http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Oggi_il_Senato_vota_su_diffamazione_e_diritto_all%27oblio

      Here is a Google translation of some proposed banner text:

      Dear readers,

      once again the independence of Wikipedia is under threat.

      In these hours, the Italian Senate is debating a bill on defamation ( DDL n.
      3491 ) which, if approved, would require each site (including Wikipedia) the
      correction or deletion of your content on simple request those who
      considered damaging to their image or their privacy, and provides for the
      criminal conviction and fines of up to € 100,000 in the case of failure to
      remove. Similar initiatives are not new , but this time their approval seems
      imminent.

      Wikipedia recognizes the right to the protection of the reputation of each
      and volunteers that contribute for free already strive daily to ensure it.
      The approval of this standard, however, be obliged to alter the content
      regardless of their veracity . Such a requirement would distort the
      fundamental principles of Wikipedia, would be an unacceptable restriction of
      its autonomy and a grave threat to the activity of its 15 million volunteers
      around the world, who would be inclined to stop dealing with specific topics
      or characters, even only "no problems."

      Wikipedia is the largest collective work in the history of the human race in
      12 years has become part of the habits of millions of Internet users in
      search of a knowledge-neutral, free and above all free. The Italian edition
      has almost a million entries, receiving 16 million visits every day, but
      this rule may obscure them forever.

      The Encyclopedia is the heritage of all. We will not allow it disappears.

      _______________________________________________

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