I fail to see how this is a copyright infringement, or how it is damaging to either company.
- Chris On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:08 PM, George Herbert <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Troy McConaghy <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > It's my understanding that if you don't defend your trademark, you risk > > losing it. > > > > That said, I don't think "Wookiepedia" is one of the Foundation's > > trademarks. It's neither spelled nor pronounced the same as Wikipedia. > > > > - Troy > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:35 AM, [email protected] < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I would like to thank you for sharing this link, because now I am more > > > informed about Yoda, Darth Vader and the force, that made my day! > > > > > > mike > > > > IANAL, but: > > The most important element is whether another entity using the trademark is > appearing to be associated with the organization owning it, in the same > business, etc. > > Wikipedia Review is clearly NOT associated with Wikipedia - it's a > criticism > and discussion site about us, but not of us. > > Wookiepedia is an informational wiki (similar "business"), but it's very > narrow focused (Star Wars info / fans), and the name is a clear and > intentional pun. Nobody is going to mistake it for a Wikipedia project, > because the pun's so clear. > > The Wikipedia Art people were connecting to us for article links, which > could confuse people as to whether they were us or part of us or not, and > given the direct connection and the direct identical name use were a > infringement. > > > -- > -george william herbert > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
