It is the law that forces us to do this. For example according to the american trademark law if we don't effectively take strength to defend our trademark, we will lose the right on them. Which would mean that one day everyone, every company can use our name and our logo to do EVERYTHING. This is one issue. The other issue is that other companies could occupy the name and the logo and register it as their trademark, so that one day we will lose the right to use them. This thread is real. There were companies who tried to register the name Wikipedia in China. And the logo of the german newspaper Taz was once occupied by another company in Germany.
Abigor wrote: > No actually, I meant what I said. What I said was "keeping all rights > reserved" on our logo's or other material seems a bit odd with our > mission. > > Trademarks is another restriction on uses, and this we should not abandon. > > But I was speaking about copyright > > Huib > > Http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:Abigor > msn: [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > -- Ting Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
