2016-03-24 3:35 GMT-07:00 Andre Engels <[email protected]>: >> Since the "Mediawiki" trademark was lost to WMF the day you and >> Anthere placed the logo into public domain [1], how can the WMF now >> spin-off this new organization ?.
> That's incorrect, putting something in the public domain does not > remove trademark rights. Indeed, acknowledging that it did not need to enforce strong copyrights on the logos to protect the trademarks, WMF released all its remaining non-free logos under CC-BY-SA in October 2014: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/ "MediaWiki" is an internationally registered trademark, as you can verify e.g., through http://www.wipo.int/branddb/en/ Erik _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
