[Juriwiki-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Trademark violation of our 'MediaWiki' mark

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Dan Grey <dangrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> All I see is a company offering to host pre-configured MediaWiki
> installations for customers under the terms of the GPL. Where's the
> problem?

Use of the term 'Media Wiki' as if it were their product or service. It is not.
That degrades our MediaWiki trademark and must be defended against if we wish
to keep control of that trademark. 

All that is really needed is for somebody from the foundation to ask them to
rewrite their adverts and other descriptions of their service to make it clear
that they are offering a hosting service for installations of MediaWiki. Using
the wording 'MediaWiki hosting' implies an official branding agreement. It is
not. 

This is the same reason why websites can't put a copy of Wikipedia content on
their website and call it 'Wikipedia' or publish a bound copy with the word
'Wikipedia' and/or the Wikipedia logo on its cover. Doing so implies that their
copy is an official publication by Wikipedia. Oh, and this is a separate issue
from giving credit; doing so correctly does not present trademark issues. 

-- mav


		
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