[WikiEN-l] Re: Corrected (Wollmann)

Fri May 13 08:46:57 UTC 2005

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Tony Sidaway wrote:
> Ray Saintonge said:
> 
>>If Mr. Wollmann thinks that he has a case let him go ahead with it, and
>> show us that he means more than simply to intimidate.  We can easily
>>promise that when we receive the court documents in the case we will
>>reconsider our position in the matter.  This may or may not result in a
>> removal of what he finds offensive from the site.  Meanwhile it will
>>have been very costly for him to mount his case with no prospects of
>>recovering those costs.
> 
> 
> 
> Well, Wikipedia probably wouldn't be vulnerable, but where individuals are
> involved he could get a default judgement in a plaintiff-friendly UK court
> for a no-show defendant in the US, with costs awarded (which is very
> common in UK cases), and then use that as leverage in the US.  This
> technique has been tried against Usenet posters and worked well.  Since
> Wikipedia content is produced by individuals who are often identifiable it
> would probably work as well on Wikipedia.
> He may have to demonstrate standing to sue in UK courts, but that could be
> as simple as selling books through Amazon.co.uk--which Wollmann does, as
> it happens.
> 

By the same token, why hasn't Wikipedia been sued by the Church of
Scientology for revealing its top secret information, which church
members can only access after a certain degree of financial support of
the church? Couldn't they sue Wikipedia for lost income?

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