On 7/3/06, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Of all the books to come out of print-on-demand, this one is possibly the most problematic. I am certainly not a lawyer but, as I see it, not only is it using the name of the Foundation without the explicit permission of the Foundation (and hence, in violation of our trademark), it is attributing the content to the Foundation. This, in turn, could make us liable for any copyvios in the book (text and images). Despite numerous requests from Print on Demand publishers (including Lulu), the Foundation has consistently avoided such an arrangement for precisely these reasons.
[[Wikibooks:Copyrights]] needs to be changed to reflect this. It currently states (among other things):
"You may use the same title as the Wikibooks book and/or module(s) but trademark law prevents you from advertising the Wikibooks or Wikimedia names without our written permission. This does not prevent you from giving either Wikibooks or Wikimedia credit for the work by name; as a matter of fact we very much appreciate all the credit we can get (this is a separate issue from author credit; see below). But it does legally prevent you from leading your readers to believe that your version of our work is in fact an official Wikibooks or Wikimedia publication."
This paragraph is somewhat contradictory, but it does explicitly say that trademark law does not prevent giving Wikimedia credit for the work by name.
Anthony