Mike Godwin wrote: > Nathan writes: > >> Interesting. Although the Italian media also reported that I (and >> Jimbo and various others) was being sued for 50 million euros, and I >> haven't seen that lawsuit yet. >> > We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating in > Italy. In the majority of those cases, Wikimedia Foundation itself never > receives service of process -- in effect, the cases only really "exist" in > Italian media. I'm not saying that's the case here, but we haven't heard > anything yet from Italian process servers yet. > > I'd like to see any official complaints that have been filed in Italian > courts (or elsewhere) against Wikimedia Italia. The chapter's defense (the > chapter doesn't produce Wikipedia content) should be straightforward under > any European legal regime, but obviously we will take an interest in any > case that seems to be going the wrong way. >
The underlying wisdom appears to be: "Don't defend a lawsuit until there's a lawsuit." Ec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
