Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/30/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
As far as I recall, there is no legal requirement to use either symbol. (r) and ™ are used by trademark holders to inform you that they consider the terms trademarks. It is not commonplace to use those symbols when you are NOT claiming trademark status on the terms yourself.
Yes, it's up to the person who owns the trademark to spray them around everywhere. If we do it, we're just being chumps.
Speaking of which, we SHOULD do it with Wikipedia(R)(TM).
[1] It's a registered trademark of the WMF, isn't it?