--- Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've made my position clear already - I think
the process is fine and
that you don't need any more input from the Board. If the rest of the
Board decline to comment, I'd take that as silent approval. All
members of the Board, if they're at all following what's going on here
or in the state of the wiki reports which already explained this, are
well aware of the accreditation scheme, and none have objected to it.
What is not clear is if those people who are accredited have permission to use
the Wikinews name and logo on badges.
No, it's quite clear that they do.
Consider what would be necessary for the opposite to be true: Could the
Wikimedia Foundation actually win a trademark-violation lawsuit against
Wikinewsies for representing themselves as Wikinewsies using the logo
and name of the project they work on? I would submit that it is very
unlikely that such a suit would succeed.
This ignores the fact that such a suit would never be filed anyway,
making the entire trademark issue moot. Trademark law is only as good
as your willingness and ability to file and win lawsuits.
-Mark