[Wikipedia-l] registering Wikipedia as a trademark

[Daniel Mayer]

Sean David Childers wrote:
>I think we would be crazy not to register wikipedia.  
>So much effort has gone into this project and the 
>copyright/patent/trademark laws right now seem 
>to be strange at best, and almost random.  I think 
>by not registering wikipedia we are taking a risk.

I agree. This is especially true due to the fact that we now have nearly 
US$40,000 in and offers all over the world to establish mirrors. With just 
US$20,000 and our current equipment we will have the redundancy and a 
scalable set-up needed to start having near-real-time web-server mirrors 
around the world.  So it is not like we are trading off a server for the 
trademarks. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)