David Gerard wrote: > 2009/6/22 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>: > > >> DG, lighten up on Noam Cohen a bit - he seems more disposed to be fair >> to us than when I met him in Taipei in 2007, and seemed surprised that >> any Wikipedians were actually, like, serious. His point was factual >> even if you may think it is misdirection. >> > > > I took it as a direct message of his employer's stance. It's 100% > indicative of the industry stance. Have you seen this *batshit insane* > bullshit? (forwarded to me by Mike Peel): > > http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=43823&c=1 > > "The Newspaper Licensing Agency has announced it is to begin > regulating its customers' use of hyperlinks to newspaper articles on > the web." > > These people were trying to email me bills for WMUK to pay for the use > of newspaper links at all on Wikipedia. I told them to try the > Foundation. > >
I think that falls squarely into the category of "You couldn't make this stuff up!" Incredible, simply incredible. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l