[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

FT2, 12/09/2012 11:13:
> 1) Does IB believe there is a legal basis that members of the public (in
> the absence of contractual obligation) cannot consider where they and their
> fellow hobbyists want to engage in a hobbyisyt activity, be it drinking
> beer, discussing philosophy, playing cards, or writing online information?  [...]
> In short, IB's problem is it conceived WT's content, and the community
> writing WT, and the WT site/brand, as its possessions, but the first two
> are not.

Actually, a fairer representation of what IB claims is that the "members 
of the public" are free to choose where to drink their beer, but someone 
with a "Pub X" cap in front of "Pub X" stopped all passing people and 
regulars that "Pub X" was renovating and to go to the new location "Pub 
Xb" across the street instead. Or that a clerk of "Y bookshop" used the 
list of all its customers and its official letter papers to mail them 
saying to send their next mail orders to the new postal address of "Yb 
bookshop".
Surely it's not trivial to prove, so to say...

Nemo