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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Schwen <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] [TS logo] Fwd: Free as in Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia Toolserver <[email protected]> What a nonsense issue. This superfluous discussion is fueled by two fallacies, the confusion of copyright and trademarking and an unhealthy paranoia toward the foundation. Protection of logos associated with the wikimedia community is a good thing. The foundation is an asset to the community! They can offer legal support in cases of abuse of wikimedia related symbology. It is absurd to create a spectre of a community-suing evil foundation while at the same tie ignoring the very real threat of dilution and abuse of wikimedia symbols and resulting damage of wikimedia community reputation by spam, phishing, link farming etc. sites. Sorry, but this is alarmist hippie crap and typical "netizen-outrage". ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] [TS logo] Fwd: Free as in Wikimedia Foundation On 03/19/2013 11:35 AM, Daniel Schwen wrote: > Sorry, but this is alarmist hippie crap and typical "netizen-outrage". I'm not sure I'd have put it in such strong words, but I agree that this is very much overblown and misguided. It's important that any marks not be misused for "evil" purposes, and Trademark is the method to prevent it. That the foundation is willing to step up and handle the legalities is a /good/ thing. Making sure nobody can use a mark for bad reasons *means* having to okay proposed uses. If you want something "everyone can use without asking for any reason", you'll get something everyone *will* use for reasons you wish they wouldn't -- and then have no way to stop them. -- Coren / Marc _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
