Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-27 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote: Yeah, Wikipedia Art are basically trolls, but I find this disturbing. If Wikipedia can make legal threats to trolls and deny it, and accuse trolls of trademark violation in a baseless way, they can do it to anyone, and

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-27 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:14 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: If I create a piece of art using Coca-Cola bottles and call it Coca-Cola Art am I infringing on a trademark? Maybe. Or am I describing my art piece accurately? Sort of. ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-27 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: wjhon...@aol.com wrote: If I create a piece of art using Coca-Cola bottles and call it Coca-Cola Art am I infringing on a trademark? Or am I describing my art piece accurately? Was Andy Warhol ever sued for his

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-27 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:57 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: The point isn't whether you take a picture of a Campbell's soup can and call it Soup Five. The point is can you call it Campbell Soup Art The name you give it, is the point. Not what the subject matter is. According to Wikipedia, he

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/4/26 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: The next time someone gets a letter from the WMF lawyers, they ought to know to read it carefully to discern whether it's a bona fide legal threat or just the WMF holding out a tin cup and asking for favors. Well, they should already know that when you

[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-26 Thread Ken Arromdee
From the Foundation-L post: we sent a letter to Wikipedia Art that was aimed, not to threaten legal action, but to outline what our legal concerns were, and to try to begin a negotiation to resolve the matter amicably -- ideally by switching the domain name over to us, but not by requiring any

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-26 Thread Fred Bauder
This is disingenuous. A letter sent by a law firm to outline our legal concerns which uses legal language and tells a site that they will settle matters amicably if they meet a demand is a legal threat. It may not actually include the words or we will sue you, but trying to spin it as not

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-26 Thread Ray Saintonge
Fred Bauder wrote: This is disingenuous. A letter sent by a law firm to outline our legal concerns which uses legal language and tells a site that they will settle matters amicably if they meet a demand is a legal threat. It may not actually include the words or we will sue you, but trying

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-26 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Fred Bauder wrote: This is disingenuous. A letter sent by a law firm to outline our legal concerns which uses legal language and tells a site that they will settle matters amicably if they meet a demand is a legal threat. It may not actually include the words or

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-26 Thread WJhonson
If I create a piece of art using Coca-Cola bottles and call it Coca-Cola Art am I infringing on a trademark? Or am I describing my art piece accurately? Will Johnson ** A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-26 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On 26 Apr 2009 at 09:24:54 -0700 (PDT), Ken Arromdee wrote: From the Foundation-L post: we sent a letter to Wikipedia Art that was aimed, not to threaten legal action, but to outline what our legal concerns were, and to try to begin a negotiation to resolve the matter amicably -- ideally

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-26 Thread Michel Vuijlsteke
2009/4/27 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wjhon...@aol.com wrote: If I create a piece of art using Coca-Cola bottles and call it Coca-Cola Art am I infringing on a trademark? Or am I describing my art piece accurately? Was Andy Warhol ever sued for his Campbell Soup cans? I think

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Art incident

2009-04-26 Thread WJhonson
The point isn't whether you take a picture of a Campbell's soup can and call it Soup Five. The point is can you call it Campbell Soup Art The name you give it, is the point. Not what the subject matter is. Will Johnson ** A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just