On 10/21/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 10/21/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
"Wikipedia: The Missing Manual"
Did he get permission to use the Wikipedia trademark in his book title? If not, I say threaten to sue unless he releases the book under a free content license. I'm serious.
IANAL, but I believe that you can't stop people from talking about you by demanding they not use your trademarked name.
No, you certainly can't. But whether or not you can stop people from using your trademark as the title of their book is a completely different question.
Given that O'Reilly already publishes a number of books that are also available under free-content licenses, you might do better through polite requests than legal threats.
I doubt it. Best strategy would probably be thinly veiled legal threats disguised as politeness.
Depending on their sales curve, opening it up at some point could well give them a nice sales boost.
Maybe, maybe not. Using Wikipedia in the title surely provides a nice sales boost, though.
Anyway, for all I know they've already gotten permission. Who would be the one to contact about this?