[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials

[Delirium]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>--- Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I've made my position clear already - I think the process is fine and
>>that you don't need any more input from the Board. If the rest of the
>>Board decline to comment, I'd take that as silent approval. All
>>members of the Board, if they're at all following what's going on here
>>or in the state of the wiki reports which already explained this, are
>>well aware of the accreditation scheme, and none have objected to it.
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>What is not clear is if those people who are accredited have permission to use
>the Wikinews name and logo on badges. 
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No, it's quite clear that they do.

Consider what would be necessary for the opposite to be true: Could the 
Wikimedia Foundation actually win a trademark-violation lawsuit against 
Wikinewsies for representing themselves as Wikinewsies using the logo 
and name of the project they work on?  I would submit that it is very 
unlikely that such a suit would succeed.

This ignores the fact that such a suit would never be filed anyway, 
making the entire trademark issue moot.  Trademark law is only as good 
as your willingness and ability to file and win lawsuits.

-Mark