[WikiEN-l] RE: Corrected

Sat May 14 21:56:02 UTC 2005

On 5/15/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
> 
> >geni said:

> >>The servers are in florida as such we are subject to the law of that
> >>state and the laws of the US federal goverment.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Not surprisingly, the UK courts do not take that view, and reciprocal
> >legal arrangements between the US and the UK make it possible to pursue
> >non-payment of UK judgements in US courts.
> >
> >
> Not surprisingly, you are misinformed on this point.  UK courts take the
> view that they do not have jurisdiction over US publications.  For
> example, were the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to defame a Briton, they
> would not be able to sue in UK courts.

I don't think any court would see Wikipedia as being a newspaper.

-- 
Peter in Canberra