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posted by mattie_p on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the exhibit-a-is-the-entire-website dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

"Dimitris Lioudis, a 23-year-old trainee lawyer from Athens, was sued for libel last year for writing about a Greek politician, Theodore Katsanevas. Last week, the judge overseeing the case issued an order that he remove the article from the site.

That got the attention of the Wikimedia Foundation, which has now made a public vow to support Liourdis throughout the litigation.

Say what you will about the Wiki, at least they know where their content comes from."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Random2 on Wednesday February 19 2014, @10:01PM

    by Random2 (669) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @10:01PM (#2905)

    Not to mention that the guy's trying to sue libel for an editor adding to wiki how he was called a 'family disgrace' in several international newspapers.

    Have newspapers been sued for things like this before? Can one be sued for libel for publicly available information (made public before they repeated it)?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday February 19 2014, @10:26PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @10:26PM (#2921)

    I suppose one can be sued for anything, no matter how stupid it is...

    But, yeah, how can I be sued if I just quote another person. "Random2 said he thinks you are a jackass."

    If you really said it, how can they get mad at me?

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