[Data-modeling] Privacy, public figures, etc

[Kirrily Robert]

----- "Shawn Simister" <narphorium at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about about letting registered users "claim" their /people/person
> 
> topic and gain certain special editing rights to that topic. Of
> course, 
> someone could just go and create a new topic called Shawn Simister and
> 
> do whatever they want to it but until they start attaching my blog or
> 
> social networking profiles to it, its pretty hard to say that its not
> 
> just someone with the same name. Once someone can be linked to more
> than 
> a couple major news articles they would be considered a public figure
> 
> and lose their special rights.

1) How do you stop me from claiming "Barack Obama"?
2) How do you stop Barack Obama from claiming "Barack Obama" and thus controlling what's said about him, even though he's a public figure and probably shouldn't be protected in that way?  

K.

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Kirrily Robert
Freebase Community Director
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