Seems to me that "Shopping-enabled Wikipedia Page" may be perilously close
to a trademark infringement, or what in the UK would be known as "passing
off".
Contrary to the description, this is not a Wikipedia page at all. The page
has no relationship to Wikipedia. This is an *Amazon* page validly using CC
free material that has come from Wikipedia. It is reasonable to presume that
the casual reader might assume a commercial link between the WMF and Amazon
which does not exist - and that the description tends to imply that.
I'd like to know if the WMF was consulted over this, and what the lawyers
think.
Scott
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Sent: 03 December 2010 13:31
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia
On 3 December 2010 13:09, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
This stuff will apparently show up in Amazon search
results soon-ish:
http://www.amazon.com/wiki/James_Joyce
Interesting idea, though I find it slightly disturbing for some reason...
The idea seems to be that you'll search for James Joyce, get the page,
follow it to buy a paperback of Finnegan's Wake. I do wonder how the
traffic is going to find these pages in the first place, I admit...
From our point of view, one concern might be the use of
"Shopping-enabled Wikipedia page", a phrasing that does tend to imply
some sort of association between us and them. Thoughts?
Their footer reads:
"The article appearing above is from Wikipedia: [article link]. The
Wikipedia content may be available under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike License, version 3.0 or any later version,
available at: [link]. Additional or other terms may apply. See
Wikipedia Terms of Use for details."
I'm intrigued by the ambivalent "may be available under"...
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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