[Foundation-l] Trademark violation

Dori slowpoke at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 02:05:17 UTC 2005


On 12/12/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Dori wrote:
>
> >Is this a trademark violation? http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/
> >
> >
> I doubt it.  He is not pretending to be Wikipedia, and I suppose his
> usage is relevant to what he is trying to do.  None of the ads for other
> class actions use the logo.  As long as he limits himself to that narrow
> use it may be better to follow a policy of "Don't feed the trolls."
>
> Ec

I won't post anymore here since people are discussing it at juriwiki,
but the site does say "(c) 2005 WikipediaClassAction.org — All rights
reserved." and they mention nothing about Wikipedia being a redistered
mark of another entity. At the very least having the image there is a
copyright violation. Anyway I'm not a lawyer so I'll shut up.

Dori


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