[WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Fri Dec 3 19:26:36 UTC 2010


> To Magnus' suggestion -- they would have no real motivation to divert
> some of their margin to Wikipedia, would they? I'm not sure
> attributing the content to Wikipedia, and using Wikimedia marks for
> that purpose, would fall far enough afoul of trademark law to give the
> WMF a lot of leverage. And in any case, do we want to get into the
> habit of asking content reusers to contribute to the WMF financially?
> The whole object is to make freely reusable content available, isn't
> it?
>
> Nathan

Asking Amazon is not the same as "getting into the habit"

Fred

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