Petitions make good evidence of community support for WMF action.
On 9/12/06, David Mestel <david.mestel(a)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...
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On 12/09/06, Andrew Archer <archer.andy(a)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(a)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(a)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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