On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Pall Thayer <pallt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ok, I broke down and looked it up... on Wikipedia. The fair use > provision for trademarks sounds a bit strange. It actually sounds to > me like it's intended more for commercial criticism than > non-commercial in that the point of it is to allow advertisers to > compare products. So if you were running an encyclopedia and you > wanted to point out that your encyclopedia is better than Wikipedia, > you would be allowed to use their trademark. But how or whether it > applies to wikipediaart's use of it seems unclear.
In the US, this is covered by the First Amendment - http://www.barbieinablender.org/ Wikimedia really do not understand what they have done - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-April/051505.html - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
