|X-Authentication-Warning: bryant.aronsson.se: lars owned process doing -bs |Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:52:07 +0100 (CET) |From: Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se |X-No-Archive: yes |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org | |tarquin wrote: |> Although the /Encyclop�dia/ is not copyright and you can copy its |> phrasing directly if you wish, Wikipedia cannot /advertise/ the presence |> of this material using the word "Britannica", which is a trademark |> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark of Encyclop�dia Britannica, |> Inc. Of course, we can still /use/ that phrase within our pages to give |> proper credit. | |What is your source for this idea that the use of the word Britannica |would be restricted? Is it a fact or an urban legend? Are you |representing Encyclopaedia Britannica, or have you talked to somebody |representing the company?

No. It is their trademark. End of story. We can't use it any more than we can use Coca-Cola.

That means we can't say "Wikipedia contains 10,000 articles from the Encyclopedia Britannica" even if it is true that we use 10,000 out-of-copyright articles from the 1911 edition. I can't think that we'd want to do that anyway.

Tom Parmenter

| |I've heard a similar explanation from Michael Hart of Project |Gutenberg when he digitized the first volume of EB11 in 1995, but I've |also heard rumors that representatives of EB should have changed their |mind later, although I don't know this for sure. So I'm in doubt, and |I would like to know if you have good reason to be any more certain. |

PS -- By the way, why so belligerent?

Tom

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