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From:
Geoff Brigham <gbrigham@wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:16 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Request for your thoughts on updating the Wikimedia trademark policy and practices
To:
wikimediaannounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: Geoff Brigham <
gbrigham@wikimedia.org>
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Hi all,
In the Legal and Community Advocacy team, we would like to open a community
discussion about our trademark policy and practices. In our view, they can
be clarified, and we want to hear your thoughts on updating them in a way
that reflects the values of the community. Our trademark policy and
practices should facilitate the broadest possible uses of the Wikimedia
trademarks to further our
mission<
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement>[1].
At the same time, they also need to preserve the trademarks that
represent the hard work of the community.
An introductory statement posted
here<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_practices_discussion>[2]
is meant to launch this discussion and to invite you to share your
ideas on the talk
page<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trademark_practices_discussion>[3]
as to how you would like us to approach this question. If we may ask,
please repost the statement widely on our projects and translate it into
multiple languages,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_practices_discussion [2], so that
as many as possible can participate in the discussion.
Based on your comments, we intend to draft a new trademark policy and share
it with you for your input, as we did with the Terms of
Use<
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/31/terms-of-use/>[4]. We expect
this process to take several months as we hear different
points of view and work together to prepare a potential new policy. Our
hope is that this could be the most collaborative, creative, and
international drafting of a trademark policy to date.
As always, we are grateful for your help and wisdom.
Geoff & Yana
Geoff Brigham <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geoffbrigham>
General Counsel
Yana Welinder <
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:YWelinder_(WMF)>
Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
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[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement
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[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_practices_discussion
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[3]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trademark_practices_discussion
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[4]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/31/terms-of-use/
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