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

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Mon Oct 31 01:26:13 UTC 2005


Robert Scott Horning wrote:

> I'm not sure where you are looking, but any time you use a trademark 
> that isn't yours, you need to put a disclaimer in the advertisement or 
> documentation that the trademark belongs to somebody else.

That's just preposterous, and there is no such legal requirement.  If 
there were, we'd be already violating it on mediawiki.org, which uses 
the term "MySQL" numerous times without ever once disclaiming that 
"MySQL(r) is a registered trademark of MySQL AB".

-Mark




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