[Foundation-l] Re: Hosting scans of the 1911 Britannica on Wikimedia

Thu Nov 10 22:12:46 UTC 2005

Angela wrote:

>On 11/9/05, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
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>
>>I suggested EB as an abbreviation, not as a way to avoid
>>trademark issues.
>>    
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>The potential trademark issue was brought up on this list last July:
><http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-July/003645.html>.
>Since then, Wikisource has been mostly using the EB abbreviation, but
>there are still  many mentions of the full name, so perhaps it was
>decided it wasn't an issue.
>
IIRC , someone had written to PG on this and they didn't seem to be 
worried about this.

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