Jay Walsh wrote:
Some notes on this whole process: in the coming year
the legal/trademark
team hopes to make the application system much simpler, and also we expect
to start publishing a public list of those orgs who have permission to
reuse the marks in a public setting. Thereby minimizing the surprise
factor to someone who just sees our mark being used in a film. We're also
moving away from this payment system (although not necessarily completely)
and instead looking to increase the number of permitted reusers, but also
to ensure clearly labeled permissions and reuse, and particularly
important, to clearly label appropriate use of CC works.
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but a bit more background (as I
remember it): when Mike Godwin was still around, there was some preliminary
work on a MediaWiki extension called TradeTrack that would help Wikimedia
and outsiders track trademark usage. I think it fell by the wayside when
Mike left the Wikimedia Foundation and any work on it has mostly stopped. A
bit more info here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TradeTrack>.
MZMcBride