On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Jay Walsh <jwa...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Today the Wikimedia Foundation posted an important update on how the Stop > Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation being considered in DC this week > threatens an open and free web, and particularly how it threatens Wikipedia. > > The post is authored by WMF's General Counsel, Geoff Brigham, and can be > found here: > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/how-sopa-will-hurt-the-free-web-and-wikipedia/ >
"Under the new bill, there is one significant improvement. The new version exempts U.S. based companies – including the Wikimedia Foundation – from being subject to a litigation regime in which rights owners could claim that our site was an “Internet site dedicated to theft of U.S. property.” Such a damnation against Wikimedia could have easily resulted in demands to cut off our fundraising payment processors. The new version now exempts U.S. sites like ours." I am genuinely not anti-american. The logic here does escape me though. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
