On 3 December 2010 13:09, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote: 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... "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"... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

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 -----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Gray 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: 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... "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"... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l