[Foundation-l] Trademarks

[Ziko van Dijk]

I wonder whether Proctor and Gamble will ever sue Wikimedia Foundation
because of its brand *Wick MediNite*...

Here my little brainstorming:

Wikipedia on USB-stick, with WP-logo, updates automatically (put it into an
online computer over night).

A lap top beveridge holder (certainly already on the market in the US?) or
high coffeine beveridge. School bags with Wikipedia logo. Writing implement.

There are young people with certain nerd problems, and in Wikipedia summer
camps they could follow their interests but also get education in fitting
into society. Parents would prefer paying for that than for Star Wars
conventions. Kinda scouting for the clumsy.

Ziko


2008/11/26 Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com>

> George Herbert wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >> No what is wrong with wikipedia brand dog food (provided that we receive
> a cut?)?
> >
> > See standard discussion of whether we want to accept advertising
> > onsite.  Same general logic.
>
> Of course, Wikipedia brand dog food is a pretty far-fetched idea, and as
> such might not provide the most interesting thought experiment for us to
> feel our way forward to an understanding of the values that we want to
> uphold.  No one is likely to want to do Wikipedia brand dog food in the
> first place, and the puzzlement that consumers would feel over what it
> is about ("the dog food that anyone can edit"? "Imagine a world in which
> every single dog on the planet..." :-)) would be substantial.
>
> Tougher calls and more interesting thought experiments might involve
> products that people might actually be interested in making and selling
> (perhaps even successfully!).
>
> (I am just randomly brainstorming to pose a few interesting challenges.)
>
> 1.  Wikipedia books - these have been done in Germany with some success,
> but imagine this being done on a massive scale, hiring some people in
> the community, but also being done in part by people we never met.
>
> 2.  Wikipedia television quiz program - with some sort of wiki flair and
> with educational segments about our projects and goals in the developing
> world... but what if the program *itself* isn't freely licensed?
> (That's part of the thought experiment.)
>
> 3.  Wikipedia series of documentaries - like National Geographic
> programs - these are to be produced in the old fashioned way, with large
> budgets, and will be run on television (perhaps on a pay channel like
> HBO) and then subsequently revenues are expected from DVD sales.  There
> is no community collaborative production.  But the end product will be
> proprietary for 5 years and then released under a free license.
>
>
>
> --Jimbo
>
>
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Ziko van Dijk
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