interesting! good luck & keep us posted ... h : ) Scott Kildall wrote: > 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 > >
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