[Juriwiki-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Trademark violation of our 'MediaWiki' mark

Sun Oct 30 18:19:30 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>Use of the term 'Media Wiki' as if it were their product or service. It is not.
>That degrades our MediaWiki trademark and must be defended against if we wish
>to keep control of that trademark. 
>
>All that is really needed is for somebody from the foundation to ask them to
>rewrite their adverts and other descriptions of their service to make it clear
>that they are offering a hosting service for installations of MediaWiki. Using
>the wording 'MediaWiki hosting' implies an official branding agreement. It is
>not. 
>  
>
This is what literally thousands of webhosts do when they advertise 
"MySQL hosting" without having a disclaimer "MySQL is a trademark of 
MySQL AB" or some sort of circumlocutory wording stating that they are 
only offering "hosting of MySQL installations", and nobody seems to mind 
that.

-Mark