Daniel Mayer wrote:
Nobody on that list has the right to use the Wikinews
or Wikimedia trademarks
in a way that would suggest any official status to the passes. Thus those names
and logos can not be used on the passes without either Foundation or a local
chapter approval and oversight.
What trademark violation is going on here? Trademark law only prohibits
commercial use of a trademark for a competing product in the same
market. It is hard to see what the competing product is, since these
people /are/ the ones creating Wikinews, and it is also hard to see what
the commercial use is.
If I were to make up a nametag calling myself "Wikipedia Administrator",
using the Wikipedia logo, this would not be a trademark violation,
because it is factually correct, noncommercial, and noncompeting.
-Mark