[Foundation-l] Offering Wikibooks content for sale

Tue Jul 4 02:09:21 UTC 2006

Do you see yourself getting involved in the ordeal? I mean, you ARE the
Wikimedia Office...r.

On 7/3/06, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Of all the books to come out of print-on-demand, this one is possibly the
> most problematic. I am certainly not a lawyer but, as I see it, not only
> is it
> using the name of the Foundation without the explicit permission of the
> Foundation (and hence, in violation of  our trademark), it is
> attributing  the
> content to the Foundation. This, in turn, could make us liable for
> any  copyvios
> in the book (text and images). Despite numerous requests from Print
> on  Demand
> publishers (including Lulu), the Foundation has consistently avoided
> such  an
> arrangement for precisely these reasons.
>
> Furthermore, the content was developed as a result of a grant made to the
> Foundation with the stated goal of creating *free* content. After
> considerable
> discussions with them, we have made it clear that we intend to keep the
> books
> online and not take them to print. This is precisely what we said we will
> *not*  do, and it is timed perfectly to coincide with negotiations to get
> a
> considerably larger grant from that same foundation to expand
> the  Wikijunior
> project.
>
> This is not commendable. It is the bad result of people acting
> unilaterally
> on behalf of the Foundation without fully understanding the implications
> of
> what  they are doing.
>
> Danny
>
>
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