The commons pirates Odder and Crisco1492 are not pseudonymous now, their identities are known, and they can be sued. "Odder" is self-declared as Tomasz Kozlowski and WMF staff [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TKozlowski_(WMF)]. So was Odder hired as a WMF contractor as quid pro quo f...

You're talking about provisions in The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA). That's really a matter for lawyers. We could have a discussion here where we attempt to intelligently reason some of that, but there's also a risk of us looking like some armchair attorney apes opining on what w...

One of the more interesting things that happened at Wikipedia (and Commons etc.) when it decided to steal the monkey selfie was that you had the usual suspects deciding the question by consensus, except now the WMF was allowing them to decide a legal matter by consensus. So you had these laymen doi...

So WMF Legal decided to make Slater take it up with pseudonymous Commons users rather than getting proactively involved. Had they gotten involved would that have put their safe harbor in jeopardy? Slater should sue Wikimedia Commons users 'Odder' and 'Crisco1492' in Germany who removed the inherent...

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjj8jz/an-edit-war-is-brewing-on-the-neuroticism-wikipedia-page-after-being-cited-in-google-employees-memo The matter of sourcing was eventually raised on the article's Talk Page, where users can discuss an article's governance and edits. Some of the page'...