[Foundation-l] Semapedia: Trademark infringement

[The Cunctator]

By the way, I just want to apologize for the somewhat disputatious terseness
of my original post. There should have been some IMHO's etc in there. I
really do think Semapedia is a cool idea.

On 5/25/06, Patrick, Brad <bpatrick at fowlerwhite.com> wrote:
>
> I just spoke to Stan, one of the two founders.  He is under the
> impression that their endorsement by de.wp has conferred an "unofficial"
> status to them.  Would the folks in Germany (Paul?) who know Stan and
> Alexis please get in touch with me?
>
> They are still without a formal organization, which is another concern.
> Good publicity in the Wall St. Journal, though. =)
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 11:22 AM
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List; hello at semapedia.org
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Semapedia: Trademark infringement
>
> http://www.semapedia.org/
>
> Great idea, horrible trademark/copyright infringement: "Semapedia: The
> Physical Wikipedia"
>
> I'm cc'ing the Semapedia contact email -- they need to change their tag
> line to not include the word Wikipedia and put a comment that "Wikipedia
> is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation".
>
> Unless they want to become an official project of the Wikimedia
> Foundation.
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