[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, Dec 2007)

[Andrew Gray]

On 21/10/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 10/21/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 21/10/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > > Anyway, for all I know they've already gotten permission.  Who would
> > > be the one to contact about this?
> >
> > No idea. But they don't need permission; they are under no legal or
> > moral or ethical obligation to ask for it;
>
> Wow, I'm rather surprised by that.  Ohwell.

...at least, I'm fairly sure they aren't!

It strikes me that we have made our project by writing an
encyclopedia; we write about anything and everything - people,
organisations, products - without ever asking permission to do so or
to use their name, and indeed we aggressively make a lot of noise
about our right to do this. How come we should get antsy when someone
uses our name to write about us?

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk