Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
I happen to know there is an English phrase "Doctor, heal thyself."
You probably ANAL. But that doesn't stop you from FUDDing.
I'm an anal non-lawyer, at that! I may be spreading uncertainty and doubt and something that is very uncertain and doubtful, but I don't think anyone is particularly frightened by anything I'm saying.
Tardises are antiquated visual whatchamacallits, but not even remotely "trademarks".
Now you are just embarrassing yourself. Check your facts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2352743.stm
You are probably expecting me to eat crow here.
I seriously doubt anyone would have a problem with usage of the textual expression "police whatever box", but the visual representation of what most people would think was a _TARDIS_, and nothing to do with police, would be a mite jarring.
On the same level, I would really think somebody using the puzzle globe on their site (or even a non-trivially distinguishable mock-up) was pushing their luck.
The word "wiki" seriously, you really should take it in, is *not* something defensibly ours.
So yes, if you really want to consider me embarrased by the fact that I was talking about words that are very live and current, rather than antiquated images only surviving because of a popular culture connection...
...you have to be a very sick puppy indeed. Takes much more than that to embarrass me.
You are claiming the law is complicated. But the facts are plain and simple, and no amount of FUDD is going to support a view that there is any reasonable justification (by moral or juridifical standards) to claim WMF is the body to apply for permission to use "wiki" on something. That just ain't gonna happen, *nohow*. Sorry. That is just a fact. Don't try to squirm.
You can repeat it as much as you like. That doesn't make it so.
Indeed, the cards speak for themselves.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen