[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials

[Delirium]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>Nobody on that list has the right to use the Wikinews or Wikimedia trademarks
>in a way that would suggest any official status to the passes. Thus those names
>and logos can not be used on the passes without either Foundation or a local
>chapter approval and oversight. 
>  
>
What trademark violation is going on here?  Trademark law only prohibits 
commercial use of a trademark for a competing product in the same 
market.  It is hard to see what the competing product is, since these 
people /are/ the ones creating Wikinews, and it is also hard to see what 
the commercial use is.

If I were to make up a nametag calling myself "Wikipedia Administrator", 
using the Wikipedia logo, this would not be a trademark violation, 
because it is factually correct, noncommercial, and noncompeting.

-Mark