See
http://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/
For example, according to this, just registering a non-figurative
trademark in CN, DE, FR, GB, GR, IE, JP, KR, PL, RU and SE (based on
countries which are majority native speakers of the "biggest"
Wikipedias, and some up-and-comers) in a single category via the US
Trademark Office will cost only 2873 CHF, or about US $2255, less than
the price of a server. (This presumably includes the U.S, too, since
that's the office of registration and the calculator does not give any
way to tick the host country, but the site is unclear on this
detail...)
This seems like a very low cost for ensuring that the Wikipedia
Foundation retains these fundamental rights, and is in a position to
prevent their misuse. It should also conclusively win any domain
battles. Note that there is nothing un-Free about this: Linus Torvalds
holds the Linux trademark, and the Free Software Foundation holds the
GNU trademark, without their trademark rights in any way inhibiting
the rights granted by the GPL on their software.
Neil
enthusiastically SUPPORT. ~~~~
-- Jens [[User:Ropers|Ropers]]On 26 Aug 2004, at 15:27, Neil Harris
wrote: