On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Chris Down neuro.wikipedia@googlemail.comwrote:
I fail to see how this is a copyright infringement, or how it is damaging to either company.
Trademark, not copyright - and it's damaging because it can lead to other organizations getting away with looking like they're part of the project.
That art project is primarily merely annoying. Other protential infringers doing the same thing (making it look like they might be part of Wikipedia) could be more malign. More malign potential examples abound ("Click here to vandalize the encyclopedia!").
We (Jimmy, the community, etc) created the Foundation to protect the Wikipedia project (and other projects) from malign external influences in the financial, legal, and real world interaction senses. This is unfortunately one of those things.