Remember Fuzzy Zoeller, the controversial golfer who caused problems with Tiger Woods after his first Masters? Well, Fuzzy is in the news again, this time going after ‘vandals’ who edited his Wikipedia profile with a defamatory paragraph.
From USAToday:
Zoeller’s attorney, Scott D. Sheftall, said he filed the lawsuit against a Miami firm last week because the law won’t allow him to sue St. Petersburg-based Wikipedia. The suit alleges someone used a computer at Josef Silny & Associates, a Miami education consulting firm, to add the information to Zoeller’s Wikipedia profile.
The paragraph in question has been removed, but the information has been picked up by other websites. The lawsuit said it alleged Zoeller abused drugs, alcohol and his family with no evidence to back up the statements. The derogatory information was first added in August 2006.
According to the lawsuit, the profile was last “vandalized” on Dec. 20 from a computer with an Internet address assigned to Josef Silny & Associates.
Is this the first case of a company or individual suing another company over information posted to a Wikipedia page?
I wonder if there will be escalation of such after this law suit.
