On 31 Aug 2006, at 13:17, Jimmy Wales wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 31/08/06, Stephen Streater sbstreater@mac.com wrote:
It might be different in English law. If you don't enforce your trademark here, I think you lose it.
Business: "We demand you cover your article in (R) and (tm)." Wikipedia: "No. Bloody obvious academic fair use, any legal threat would be obviously frivolous and probably sanctionable." Business: "Well, we tried."
We have also traditionally had good success with simply noting, upon first use, the the term is a trademark held by so-and-so. This is a nice compromise because (a) it is encyclopedic information and (b) it usually satisfies them.
When they want us to sprinkle (R) or (TM) everywhere, yeah, well, they can just forget it, that's stupid.
We had a big debate on [[Web 2.0]] about this.
The article makes it clear it is a trademark under the heading "Trademark controversy". I can't see any (r) or (tm).