[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia must change with Googling

Fri Aug 27 00:40:04 UTC 2004

> See http://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/
>
> For example, according to this, just registering a non-figurative 
> trademark in CN, DE, FR, GB, GR, IE, JP, KR, PL, RU and SE (based on 
> countries which are majority native speakers of the "biggest" 
> Wikipedias, and some up-and-comers) in a single category via the US 
> Trademark Office will cost only 2873 CHF, or about US $2255, less than 
> the price of a server. (This presumably includes the U.S, too, since 
> that's the office of registration and the calculator does not give any 
> way to tick the host country, but the site is unclear on this 
> detail...)
>
> This seems like a very low cost for ensuring that the Wikipedia 
> Foundation retains these fundamental rights, and is in a position to 
> prevent their misuse. It should also conclusively win any domain 
> battles. Note that there is nothing un-Free about this: Linus Torvalds 
> holds the Linux trademark, and the Free Software Foundation holds the 
> GNU trademark, without their trademark rights in any way inhibiting 
> the rights granted by the GPL on their software.
>
> Neil

enthusiastically SUPPORT. ~~~~

-- Jens [[User:Ropers|Ropers]]On 26 Aug 2004, at 15:27, Neil Harris 
wrote: