[WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia

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Seems to me that "Shopping-enabled Wikipedia Page" may be perilously close
to a trademark infringement, or what in the UK would be known as "passing
off".

Contrary to the description, this is not a Wikipedia page at all. The page
has no relationship to Wikipedia. This is an *Amazon* page validly using CC
free material that has come from Wikipedia. It is reasonable to presume that
the casual reader might assume a commercial link between the WMF and Amazon
which does not exist - and that the description tends to imply that.

I'd like to know if the WMF was consulted over this, and what the lawyers
think.

Scott 

-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Gray
Sent: 03 December 2010 13:31
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia

On 3 December 2010 13:09, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> This stuff will apparently show up in Amazon search results soon-ish:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/wiki/James_Joyce
>
> Interesting idea, though I find it slightly disturbing for some reason...

The idea seems to be that you'll search for James Joyce, get the page,
follow it to buy a paperback of Finnegan's Wake. I do wonder how the
traffic is going to find these pages in the first place, I admit...