Petitions make good evidence of community support for WMF action.
On 9/12/06, David Mestel david.mestel@gmail.com wrote:
Ah, good point. But I would have thought that if the WMF does own the trademark, the case is fairly clear-cut, so they wouldn't bother to defend it - but that's probably just my legal naivety...
-- David
On 12/09/06, Andrew Archer archer.andy@gmail.com wrote:
Domain name complaints are really nasty and costly, especially if they
fight
it.
Petitions are free.
Andrew Archer
On 12/09/06, David Mestel david.mestel@gmail.com wrote:
I don't entirely understand the difficulty - surely the WMF has some kind of trademark over the Wikipedia name, which would allow them to forbid others to use it? I'm no lawyer, but I don't see why we would need to bother with a petition.
David
On 12/09/06, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
"Ray Saintonge" wrote:
At what point do we become subject to the law of diminishing
returns?
The possible variations on our different wikinames, national
domains
and
undotted language codes could rapidly get completely out of hand.
If a person cybersquats one of these names with malicious intent
it's
hard to imagine that he will be impressed by a petition with 1,000 signatures. Even when we manage to wrest one of these names away
there
comes a point where the cumulative burden of keeping all these
names
protected is just not cost effective.
Ec
Even worse, i'd warn you that this can attract more people to
cybersquatting
our domains, as we will be publicising this subject.
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