[WikiEN-l] Fighting over (R) and (tm) symbols

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 8/30/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As far as I recall, there is no legal requirement to use either
>> symbol.  (r) and ™ are used by trademark holders to inform you that
>> they consider the terms trademarks.  It is not commonplace to use
>> those symbols when you are NOT claiming trademark status on the terms
>> yourself.
> 
> Yes, it's up to the person who owns the trademark to spray them around
> everywhere. If we do it, we're just being chumps.
> 

Speaking of which, we SHOULD do it with Wikipedia(R)(TM).

[1] It's a registered trademark of the WMF, isn't it?

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