[WikiEN-l] enforcing our trademark

[Angela]

On 1/9/06, SCO Estmort <eudaimonic.leftist at gmail.com> wrote:
> It occurs to me we should enforce some of our trademarks, because rampant
> infringement of Wikipedia's trademarks, and Wikimedia's trademarks in
> general is occurring. If we don't enforce our trademarks IIRC, we will
> eventually lose the ability to enforce them forever.

This is true, and it's something the Foundation's legal committee are
working on.

> Wikipedi.org, wikicommons.org, etc. are candidates for trademark
> infringement.

Wikicommons.org is owned by the Foundation. Wikipedi is just
[[Typosquatting]] and not something I'm too worried about since it
would be too costly to prevent every domain typo from being
registered.

Angela