[Foundation-l] Trademark problem

[Thomas Dalton]

On 03/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/01/2008, Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Shouldn't http://www.wikipedia-watch.org be renamed to any other name
> > without 'wikipedia' in it?
>
>
> Use of a name for purposes of criticism is not a trademark violation.

Exactly, they are using "Wikipedia" to refer to Wikipedia, not to
refer to their own product. It's the websites that describe themselves
as "The Wikipedia of X" (where X is their subject of interest) that we
should do something about (if we don't, there is a risk of the word
becoming generic).