[Foundation-l] Semapedia: Trademark infringement

[Patrick, Brad]

So do I.  But I think everyone agrees the point of having a trademark is
to know how it is being used, and by whom.  Stan is excited to see
everyone in Boston.  No doubt there is much more to talk about with
them. 

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By the way, I just want to apologize for the somewhat disputatious
terseness of my original post. There should have been some IMHO's etc in
there. I really do think Semapedia is a cool idea.

On 5/25/06, Patrick, Brad <bpatrick at fowlerwhite.com> wrote:
>
> I just spoke to Stan, one of the two founders.  He is under the 
> impression that their endorsement by de.wp has conferred an
"unofficial"
> status to them.  Would the folks in Germany (Paul?) who know Stan and 
> Alexis please get in touch with me?
>
> They are still without a formal organization, which is another
concern.
> Good publicity in the Wall St. Journal, though. =)
>
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> http://www.semapedia.org/
>
> Great idea, horrible trademark/copyright infringement: "Semapedia: The

> Physical Wikipedia"
>
> I'm cc'ing the Semapedia contact email -- they need to change their 
> tag line to not include the word Wikipedia and put a comment that 
> "Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation".
>
> Unless they want to become an official project of the Wikimedia 
> Foundation.
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