QUOTE(Cedric @ Sun 12th July 2009, 3:02pm)
I am rather unsure of the strategy behind the legal demand to a US citizen residing in the US, unless it is just to run a bluff, as Kato suggests. I cannot see the basis for jurisdiction. The lawyers for the NPG must have already determined that there was no way of enforcing a judgment based on UK copyright law against the WMF in a Dutch court.
True.
One point to mention, the situation is so one-sided that
when a UK hacker with Aspergers broke into US military networks to look for evidence of UFOs, the US Courts managed to indict him and demand his extradition to the US to face a long prison sentence. The US also managed to extradite British citizen and idiot
Abu Hamza on trumped up charges, which really amounted to 'saying nasty things about America'. Both cases caused outrage in the UK in legal circles.
When the US courts want to flex their muscles against foreign citizens, it has no qualms about doing so. But there's no chance of US citizens facing the same process themselves from a foreign court.
QUOTE(tarantino @ Sun 12th July 2009, 2:54pm)
Lar has removed Dcoetzee's administrator rights, four minutes after a request by Gmaxwell, so he won't be tempted to unilaterally delete the images.
Discussion is here.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?t...etzee_adminship Ugh, what assholes. (IMG:
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