Hi everyone, I have been keeping quiet about this development until today.
A brief history: On February 14th, 2009, Nathaniel Stern and I launched the Wikipedia Art intervention on Wikipedia, which generated knots of discussion on what was deemed encyclopedia-worthy. The full archive of this project is at www.wikipediaart.org. A few weeks ago, I was sent a letter from the Wikimedia legal counsel (they run Wikipedia) which challenged the Wikipedia Art project (specifically the domain name, which I was the registrant of) on the grounds of trademark infringement since we were using the "Wikipedia" name in the project. This is despite the fact that the project is a non-commercial commentary of Wikipedia. Here is an article written by Corynne McSherry from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on the Wikimedia action, in support of the Wikipedia Art project: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/wikipedia-threatens- And this is a brief legal history along with a personal statement that we put up on the site: http://wikipediaart.org/legal-history/ It certainly has been an interesting few weeks and in my various consultations with lawyers, I have learned a *lot* about intellectual property and cyberlegal issues. Best wishes, Scott Kildall www.kildall.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
