> Of course, only copying the first revison, and infringing on Wikia's > Service Mark would be a different case.
The risk of such infringement is a good reason to actively associate yourself or your group with your mark. Online and printed promotion can be very useful, as ownership of rights in a mark are obtained through its use to identify your goods and services, either on the product itself or through advertising. If you feel it is necessary, you can officially register your service mark. At US$275 for the US alone, this may be a relatively expensive procedure (or not, depending on your point of view), but it gives you the ability to demand an injunction preventing the person from using your mark in the same area of business. It may also entitle you to damages if they do so with intent to confuse, cause mistake, or deceive. Such remedies are possible to obtain without a registered mark, but you have to do a lot more work to prove you own it - if registered, it's up to them to prove the opposite. -- Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry http://greenreaper.co.uk/ - http://wikifur.com/ "Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill?" _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
