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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criminal status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Released on <a href="/wiki/Parole" title="Parole">parole</a> in 2007 after serving 15 years in prison</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criminal charge</th><td class="infobox-data">Murder</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Penalty</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Life_imprisonment" title="Life imprisonment">Life imprisonment</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Manfred Lauber</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criminal status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Released on <a href="/wiki/Parole" title="Parole">parole</a> in 2008 after serving 16 years in prison</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criminal charge</th><td class="infobox-data">Murder</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Penalty</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Life_imprisonment" title="Life imprisonment">Life imprisonment</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Wolfgang Werlé</b> and <b>Manfred Lauber</b> are German half-brothers who were convicted of the 1990 murder of actor <a href="/wiki/Walter_Sedlmayr" title="Walter Sedlmayr">Walter Sedlmayr</a>. The murder, and subsequent trial and conviction of Werlé and Lauber in 1993, received extensive media coverage in Germany and elsewhere.<sup id="cite_ref-koln_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-koln-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009, Werlé and Lauber again received international media coverage when Werlé attempted to remove his name from foreign media sources, including the English language <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>, citing German privacy laws.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sedlmayr_murder_and_trial">Sedlmayr murder and trial</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_Werl%C3%A9_and_Manfred_Lauber&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Sedlmayr murder and trial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 15 July 1990 Sedlmayr's body was found in the bedroom of his <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> apartment. He had been tied up, stabbed in the stomach with a knife and was beaten about his head with a hammer. On 21 May 1993 a Munich court found Wolfgang Werlé and his half-brother guilty of Sedlmayr's murder and sentenced both to life imprisonment. Sedlmayr was one of Germany's prominent actors, and the case was described by the <i><a href="/wiki/Berliner_Morgenpost" title="Berliner Morgenpost">Berliner Morgenpost</a></i> as "the most spectacular in Munich's postwar history."<sup id="cite_ref-morgenpost_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morgenpost-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Witnesses at the trial said that the two brothers were involved in business disputes with Sedlmayr.<sup id="cite_ref-trial_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trial-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The case became notable for its lurid tabloid newspaper coverage of Sedlmayr's <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexuality</a>, which had previously been private.<sup id="cite_ref-morgenpost_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morgenpost-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The German media reported the identities of both of the brothers at the time of the trial.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An appeal against the convictions was rejected in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-hrr_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hrr-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Werlé was released on parole in August 2007, while Lauber was released in 2008. Both brothers continue to protest their innocence, and questions have been raised about the <a href="/wiki/Fingerprint" title="Fingerprint">fingerprint</a> evidence. In 1998, a fingerprint from the shower curtain of the apartment was identified as belonging to a 44-year-old man from <a href="/wiki/Ingolstadt" title="Ingolstadt">Ingolstadt</a> who had previously been questioned, but denied involvement with the murder.<sup id="cite_ref-koln_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-koln-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-morgenpost_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morgenpost-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Privacy_dispute">Privacy dispute</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_Werl%C3%A9_and_Manfred_Lauber&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Privacy dispute"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 27 October 2009 lawyers for Wolfgang Werlé sent the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> a <a href="/wiki/Cease_and_desist" title="Cease and desist">cease and desist</a> letter requesting that Werlé's name be removed from the English language <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article "<a href="/wiki/Walter_Sedlmayr" title="Walter Sedlmayr">Walter Sedlmayr</a>", citing a 1973 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Constitutional_Court" title="Federal Constitutional Court">Federal Constitutional Court</a> decision that allows the suppression of a criminal's name in news accounts once he is released from custody.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wired_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wired-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Previously, the attorney for both men, Alexander H. Stopp, had won a default judgment in German court, on behalf of Lauber, against the Wikimedia Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>, Werlé's lawyers also challenged an Internet service provider in Austria which published the names of the convicted killers.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> is based in the United States, where the <a href="/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution">First Amendment to the United States Constitution</a> protects <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United_States" title="Freedom of speech in the United States">freedom of speech</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press_in_the_United_States" title="Freedom of the press in the United States">freedom of the press</a>, under which the articles on Wikipedia would fall. In Germany, the law seeks to protect the name and likenesses of private persons from unwanted publicity.<sup id="cite_ref-GranickJ2009Convicted_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GranickJ2009Convicted-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 18 January 2008 a court in <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a> supported the personality rights of Werlé, which under German law includes removing his name from archive coverage of the case.<sup id="cite_ref-hamburg_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hamburg-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 12 November 2009 <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> reported that Wolfgang Werlé had a case pending against the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> in a German court. The editors of the German-language Wikipedia <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sedlmayr" class="extiw" title="de:Walter Sedlmayr">article about Sedlmayr</a> removed the names of the murderers,<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which have since<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (January 2023)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> then been restored to the article.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> observed that the lawsuit has led to the <a href="/wiki/Streisand_effect" title="Streisand effect">Streisand effect</a>, an upsurge in publicity for the case resulting from the legal action.<sup id="cite_ref-ManGuard_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ManGuard-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 15 December 2009 the German <a href="/wiki/Federal_Court_of_Justice_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Court of Justice of Germany">Federal Court of Justice</a> (Bundesgerichtshof) in <a href="/wiki/Karlsruhe" title="Karlsruhe">Karlsruhe</a> ruled that German websites do not have to check their archives in order to provide permanent protection of personality rights for convicted criminals. The case occurred after the names of the brothers were found on the website of <a href="/wiki/Deutschlandradio" title="Deutschlandradio">Deutschlandradio</a>, in an archive article dating from July 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-deradio_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deradio-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The presiding judge Gregor Galke stated "This is not a blank check", and pointed out that the right to rehabilitation of offenders had been taken into consideration.<sup id="cite_ref-suddeutsche_zeitung_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-suddeutsche_zeitung-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-focus_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-focus-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 28 June 2018 the <a href="/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights">European Court of Human Rights</a> ruled that the German Federal Court of Justice had been right to reject the request to ban publication of the killers' names in 2009, saying "The approach to covering a given subject was a matter of journalistic freedom, and reporting individualised information was an important aspect of the press's work."<sup id="cite_ref-ECHR_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECHR-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_Werl%C3%A9_and_Manfred_Lauber&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media 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.cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1113229792888.shtml">"Sedlmayr-Mord: Gericht prüft Wiederaufnahme des Verfahrens"</a> (in German). <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6lner_Stadt-Anzeiger" title="Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger">Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger</a>. 12 April 2005.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Sedlmayr-Mord%3A+Gericht+pr%C3%BCft+Wiederaufnahme+des+Verfahrens&rft.date=2005-04-12&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ksta.de%2Fhtml%2Fartikel%2F1113229792888.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWolfgang+Werl%C3%A9+and+Manfred+Lauber" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nyt-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nyt_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nyt_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nyt_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nyt_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchwartz2009" class="citation news cs1">Schwartz, John (November 12, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/us/13wiki.html">"Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia's Parent"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2009-11-13</span></span>. <q>Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber became infamous for killing a German actor in 1990. Now they are suing to force Wikipedia to forget them.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Two+German+Killers+Demanding+Anonymity+Sue+Wikipedia%27s+Parent&rft.date=2009-11-12&rft.aulast=Schwartz&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F11%2F13%2Fus%2F13wiki.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWolfgang+Werl%C3%A9+and+Manfred+Lauber" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-morgenpost-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-morgenpost_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-morgenpost_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-morgenpost_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJörg_Völkerling2004" class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Jörg Völkerling (18 December 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/panorama/article383706/Neue_Spur_im_Mordfall_Sedlmayr.html">"Neue Spur im Mordfall Sedlmayr"</a> (in German). <a href="/wiki/Berliner_Morgenpost" title="Berliner Morgenpost">Berliner Morgenpost</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Neue+Spur+im+Mordfall+Sedlmayr&rft.date=2004-12-18&rft.au=J%C3%B6rg+V%C3%B6lkerling&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.morgenpost.de%2Fprintarchiv%2Fpanorama%2Farticle383706%2FNeue_Spur_im_Mordfall_Sedlmayr.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWolfgang+Werl%C3%A9+and+Manfred+Lauber" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-trial-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-trial_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091113145746/http://www.br-online.de/aktuell/sedlmayr-persoenlichkeitsrecht-internet-ID1257844734083.xml">"Entscheidung im Sedlmayr-Fall vertagt"</a> (in German). <a href="/wiki/Bayerischer_Rundfunk" title="Bayerischer Rundfunk">Bayerischer Rundfunk</a>. 10 November 2009. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.br-online.de/aktuell/sedlmayr-persoenlichkeitsrecht-internet-ID1257844734083.xml">the original</a> on November 13, 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Entscheidung+im+Sedlmayr-Fall+vertagt&rft.date=2009-11-10&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.br-online.de%2Faktuell%2Fsedlmayr-persoenlichkeitsrecht-internet-ID1257844734083.xml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWolfgang+Werl%C3%A9+and+Manfred+Lauber" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.webdoodles.org/webimages/sedlmayr.png">Mordfall Walter Sedlmayr, Focus magazine article, 17 January 2005, in German)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hrr-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-hrr_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hrr-strafrecht.de/hrr/1/94/1-83-94.php">"BGH 1 StR 83/94 – Urteil vom 21. Juli 1994 (LG München I)"</a> (in German). hrr-strafrecht.de<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2009-11-15</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Sedlmayr-M%C3%B6rder+aus+Haft+entlassen&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpanorama%2Fjustiz%2F0%2C1518%2C499192%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWolfgang+Werl%C3%A9+and+Manfred+Lauber" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-wired-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-wired_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavid_Kravets2009" class="citation news cs1">David Kravets (November 11, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/wikipedia_murder">"Convicted Murderer Sues Wikipedia, Demands Removal of His Name"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Wired_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Wired News">Wired News</a></i>. <q>Wikipedia is under a censorship attack by a convicted murderer who is invoking Germany's privacy laws in a bid to remove references to his killing of a Bavarian actor in 1990.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Wired+News&rft.atitle=Convicted+Murderer+Sues+Wikipedia%2C+Demands+Removal+of+His+Name&rft.date=2009-11-11&rft.au=David+Kravets&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fthreatlevel%2F2009%2F11%2Fwikipedia_murder&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWolfgang+Werl%C3%A9+and+Manfred+Lauber" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2009/11/stopp.pdf">Copy of cease and desist letter</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/12/wikipedia_sued_by_convicted_murderer">"Wikipedia sued for publishing convicted murderer's name"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Register" title="The Register">The Register</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Register&rft.atitle=Wikipedia+sued+for+publishing+convicted+murderer%27s+name&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2009%2F11%2F12%2Fwikipedia_sued_by_convicted_murderer&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWolfgang+Werl%C3%A9+and+Manfred+Lauber" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GranickJ2009Convicted-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-GranickJ2009Convicted_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJennifer_Granick2009" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Granick" title="Jennifer Granick">Jennifer Granick</a> (10 November 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/murderer-wikipedia-shhh">"Convicted Murderer To Wikipedia: Shhh!"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>. <q>Who killed Sedlmayr? Its [sic] a matter of public record, but if one of the men and his German law firm gets their way, Wikipedia (and EFF) will not be allowed to tell you. A few days ago, the online encyclopedia received a cease and desist letter from one of the convicts—represented by the aptly named German law firm Stopp and Stopp—demanding that the perpetrator's name be taken off of the Sedlmayr article page.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Convicted+Murderer+To+Wikipedia%3A+Shhh%21&rft.date=2009-11-10&rft.au=Jennifer+Granick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eff.org%2Fdeeplinks%2F2009%2F11%2Fmurderer-wikipedia-shhh&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWolfgang+Werl%C3%A9+and+Manfred+Lauber" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hamburg-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-hamburg_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.landesrecht.hamburg.de/jportal/portal/page/bshaprod.psml;jsessionid=D0EE59E4F4B727BF37EAB3766448FAB8.jpj4?showdoccase=1&doc.id=JURE080001422">"Abwägung bei einem Unterlassungsanspruch zwischen dem Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung und dem Persönlichkeitsrecht (Resozialisierung) bei elektronischen Pressearchiven einen Mordfall betreffend"</a> (in German). 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