[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia on iPod (Encyclopodia) available now

Fri Mar 3 16:05:23 UTC 2006

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

>On 3/2/06, Jim <trodel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>The only way the high quality can be assured, and wikipedia can stay
>>reputable (with the press penchant for negative stories) is to clearly
>>identify what is the original source "wikimedia foundation"
>>data/information/articles and what is not.
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>But the information in question *is* original source wikimedia
>foundation data/information/articles.  However, the Wikimedia
>trademarks, at least in theory (IANAL), disallow someone from making
>that clear.
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I think it's more the logo that's problematic.  Factual attributions, 
like "This is a distribution of Wikipedia content as of [x date], 
selected in [y manner], packaged for the iPod" would be hard to 
prosecute under trademark laws, just like Brittanica hasn't sued us for 
having taglines at the bottom of some articles stating "This article 
incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, a publication 
in the public domain.".

-Mark