It is the law that forces us to do this.
For example according to the american trademark law if we don't
effectively take strength to defend our trademark, we will lose the
right on them. Which would mean that one day everyone, every company can
use our name and our logo to do EVERYTHING. This is one issue. The other
issue is that other companies could occupy the name and the logo and
register it as their trademark, so that one day we will lose the right
to use them. This thread is real. There were companies who tried to
register the name Wikipedia in China. And the logo of the german
newspaper Taz was once occupied by another company in Germany.
Abigor wrote:
No actually, I meant what I said. What I said was
"keeping all rights
reserved" on our logo's or other material seems a bit odd with our
mission.
Trademarks is another restriction on uses, and this we should not abandon.
But I was speaking about copyright
Huib
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