[Foundation-l] Re: Update: Floricic vs Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

Tue Jan 31 23:23:53 UTC 2006

Thanks for the update Presroi.

I forward it to the foundation list, whose readers may be interested by 
the issue as well.

Ant

Mathias Schindler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today there was a hearing at the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, Berlin 
> (municipal court) about the preliminary injunction against the German 
> Verein. The injunction was prohibiting Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. to 
> redirect wikipedia.de to the German Wikipedia as long as the full civil 
> name of a dead hacker ([[en:Tron (hacker)]]) is shown at de.wikipedia.org.
> 
> In the hearing, the judge gave more than just a hint that he does not 
> agree with the argument from Tron's parents that telling a (already 
> publicly known) civil name is violating the post-mortem 
> Persönlichkeitsrecht (right of personality).
> 
> The decision, whether the preliminary injunction is withdrawn will be 
> announced on thursday at 9 a.m. (CET).
> 
> Here are two reports from the court hearing:
> 
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/69056 (the author was present at 
> the hearing)
> 
> http://www.golem.de/0601/43060.html (I am not sure if he was there)
> 
> 
> There is one question left and I would love to see some research from 
> you. Ivo Floricic, the owner of the trademark "Tron" and father of Boris 
> Floricic (aka. [[en:Tron (hacker)]] claims that he thinks that he is the 
> only one with the name "Floricic" in Germany and these special 
> circumstances would somehow violate his rights if wikipedia is 
> mentioning the full name of Tron.
> 
> Does anyone know any other person by the name of Floricic?
> 
> According to Google, there is an artist "Alen Floricic" from Croatia who 
> might be notable (if he is notable, it would be nice to consider taking 
> the CV from certain sites and write an article about him). There is also 
> a professor of linguistics, Franck Floricic from France.
> 
> Greetings,
> Mathias
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