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

[Tracy Poff]

On 10/21/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> What do you think the WMF should do if it *did* have a clear legal
> case?  What if someone called their proprietary encyclopedia
> "Wikipedia Premium Edition"?  Would you suggest the WMF sue people
> over how they title their books?  Would it be a major PR disaster if
> they did so?

If someone called their encyclopedia "Wikipedia Premium Edition"
without permission, they would be *lying* to people and trying to
trick them into thinking that it was an official version of wikipedia.
It is, I think, ethical to use legal means to stop people lying about
whether we (in particular, the foundation) support their product.

But that's not the case, here. I doubt that people will assume that
the book in question was a product of the foundation, and I suspect
that the book contains statements to the contrary. The situation just
isn't analogous.

Tracy Poff