[Foundation-l] Possible trademark infringement

Thu Apr 30 00:01:28 UTC 2009

I fail to see how this is a copyright infringement, or how it is damaging to
either company.

- Chris

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:08 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Troy McConaghy <troy.mcconaghy at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > It's my understanding that if you don't defend your trademark, you risk
> > losing it.
> >
> > That said, I don't think "Wookiepedia" is one of the Foundation's
> > trademarks. It's neither spelled nor pronounced the same as Wikipedia.
> >
> > - Troy
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:35 AM, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com <
> > jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to thank you for sharing this link, because now I am more
> > > informed about Yoda, Darth Vader and the force, that made my day!
> > >
> > > mike
> >
>
> IANAL, but:
>
> The most important element is whether another entity using the trademark is
> appearing to  be associated with the organization owning it, in the same
> business, etc.
>
> Wikipedia Review is clearly NOT associated with Wikipedia - it's a
> criticism
> and discussion site about us, but not of us.
>
> Wookiepedia is an informational wiki (similar "business"), but it's very
> narrow focused (Star Wars info / fans), and the name is a clear and
> intentional pun.  Nobody is going to mistake it for a Wikipedia project,
> because the pun's so clear.
>
> The Wikipedia Art people were connecting to us for article links, which
> could confuse people as to whether they were us or part of us or not, and
> given the direct connection and the direct identical name use were a
> infringement.
>
>
> --
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
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