{"id":40093,"date":"2009-11-11T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091111\/0146246887.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-11T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:45:00","slug":"convicted-german-murderer-wants-his-conviction-erased-from-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40093","title":{"rendered":"Convicted German Murderer Wants His Conviction Erased From Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EFF has the bizarre story of a convicted murderer in Germany who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/11\/murderer-wikipedia-shhh\" >demanding that Wikipedia censor all mentions of the guy&#8217;s name<\/a>.  Apparently, he (and his lawyers) are using a part of German law that allows for the protection of &#8220;names and likenesses of private persons from unwanted publicity.&#8221;  However, as the EFF points out, he&#8217;s not a private person.  He became a very public person when he was tried and convicted (along with his half-brother) for killing Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr.  Apparently, his lawyers are going after multiple service providers, trying to get the guy&#8217;s name taken off the internet.  The EFF points out that the press has published the two convicted murderers&#8217; names for Sedlmayr&#8217;s death: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/panorama\/justiz\/0,1518,499192,00.html\" >Wolfgang Werle and his half-brother Manfred Lauber<\/a>, and that this appears to be nothing more than an attempt to censor history across multiple borders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091111\/0146246887.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091111\/0146246887.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091111\/0146246887&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ac1c60d6c9b29d84afe96dcb7d13852f&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=ac1c60d6c9b29d84afe96dcb7d13852f&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=Zv_l3-7iL0k:txtZp2PAJL4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=Zv_l3-7iL0k:txtZp2PAJL4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=Zv_l3-7iL0k:txtZp2PAJL4:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/Zv_l3-7iL0k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF has the bizarre story of a convicted murderer in Germany who is demanding that Wikipedia censor all mentions of the guy&#8217;s name. Apparently, he (and his lawyers) are using a part of German law that allows for the protection of &#8220;names and likenesses of private persons from unwanted publicity.&#8221; However, as the EFF points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}