On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:18:10 +0100, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/9/06, SCO Estmort eudaimonic.leftist@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.
Typos are one thing, but what about sites on other top domains like .com or .net. Wikipedia itself seems to be covered, but things like http://www.wikimedia.com and http://www.wikimedia.net (pornsite) are out there. Though I guess it might be better to just ignore those rather than give in to the "blackmail" of various domain sharks.