slimvirgin(a)gmail.com (slimvirgin(a)gmail.com) [050506 08:18]:
On 5/5/05, Tony Sidaway
<minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com> wrote:
> Josh Gordon said:
> Not much consolation if you're an American
sued in a British court for
> something you put on an American website. Yes, they do have jurisdiction.
> Yes, litigants have successfully collected.
The difficult thing in the UK is that the burden of
proof lies with
the defendant i.e. the publisher, who has to show why the material is
not libellous; whereas in the U.S., the burden of proof lies with the
person who brings the case.
This legal talk is entirely irrelevant to the issue at hand. Edmond Wollman
has made spurious legal threats for decades. None have even come to court,
let alone been won.
There is an encyclopedic interest issue at stake. Will relevant information
be removed from an article because an exposed fraud's ego is bruised?
(Do check this page on Wollmann, by the way. It's not the least bit neutral
- the POV is hardly penetrable once you're used to the Wikipedia way of
writing things - but it does include large chunks of the sci.skeptic FAQ
section Tony Sidaway was keeper of for a while (hence Mr Wollmann's hate-on
for him) and has marvellous documentation of Mr Wollmann's online and
offline activities. BTW, he has a fondness for sock puppetry:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~oracle/ed-w-con.htm
It's on [[Zenon Panoussis]]' site and there it's staying. Mr. Wollmann
hasn't managed to sue him either.)
- d.