Out of curiosity... what exactly ARE the difficulties? wikimania2006.org is not taken last I checked. CHI seems to be doing quite well using that model. I didn't find Wikimania registered as a trademark with the US, European, Australian or Canadian patent offices at least. Don't know about doing a more comprehensive international search...
On 1/4/06, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/3/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear all,
Though most of us probably love the name Wikimania for our favorite world wide event, it is likely to be necessary to "change" it, as "securing" it (domain names, trademarks...) will cost us much.
What are the costs of not securing it? Does every term or event name used now need to be locked down as both trademark and domain name? Is the worry that someone else will come along and try to run non-wikimedia conferences with a similar name? (in practice it seems they could already do that, if we give up on "wikimania" as the name... as that word is primarily used, on the web and in wiki/tech circles [some 150k google hits], to refer to the first Wikimedia conference).
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