[Commons-l] Trademarks

Tue Sep 20 10:37:01 UTC 2005

David Benbennick wrote:
> On 9/13/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> 
>>The core goal of Commons is maximal reuse.
> 
> 
> Actually, that's incorrect.  Lots of previous discussions have used
> arguments similar to the following: Suppose, for example, that Saudi
> Arabia bans photographs of nude people.  "Maximal reuse" would require
> us to then delete the contents of [[Category:Nudity]]. 

Your point is valid.  I overstated the case.

The core goal of Commons is to maximize reuse free of copyright,
trademark, and patent issues across a broad spectrum of nations, while
at the same time acknowledging that some very idiosyncratic
jurisdictions may be too difficult to accomodate.

This formulation is accurate, I think, but of course it leaves open a
fairly large gray area where community consensus is going to be our best
guide.

--Jimbo