[Wikipedia-l] Trademarks and user names

Thu May 8 01:00:43 UTC 2003

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Jens Frank wrote:
| A new user registered a few days ago using the name "Harry Potter".
| Warner Bros and JK Rowling have a trademark registered for this
| name.
|
| On the new users talk page (
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk%3AHarry_Potter ),
| MammaBaer posted some concerns about the user name and its legal
| status. I'm not experienced in trademark law, so I post this to
| the list.
|
| Is the use of a trademarked name as a username problematic?
|
| 	Best regards,
|
| 	    JeLuF

Why are you assuming that th new user's real name is not Harold Potter?

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