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---forwarded message--- From: Scott Kildall <lucky@kildall.com> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Wikipedia challenges "Wikipedia Art" Hi everyone, I have been keeping quiet about this development until today. A brief history: On February 14th, 2009, Nathaniel Stern and I launched the Wikipedia Art intervention on Wikipedia, which generated knots of discussion on what was deemed encyclopedia-worthy. The full archive of this project is at www.wikipediaart.org. A few weeks ago, I was sent a letter from the Wikimedia legal counsel (they run Wikipedia) which challenged the Wikipedia Art project (specifically the domain name, which I was the registrant of) on the grounds of trademark infringement since we were using the "Wikipedia" name in the project. This is despite the fact that the project is a non-commercial commentary of Wikipedia. Here is an article written by Corynne McSherry from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on the Wikimedia action, in support of the Wikipedia Art project: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/wikipedia-threatens- And this is a brief legal history along with a personal statement that we put up on the site: http://wikipediaart.org/legal-history/ It certainly has been an interesting few weeks and in my various consultations with lawyers, I have learned a *lot* about intellectual property and cyberlegal issues. Best wishes, Scott Kildall www.kildall.com _______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural Magazine - English (http://neural.it/) Italian (http://www.neural.it/neural_it/) Latest Printed Issue - http://www.neural.it/art/2009/04/post_3.phtml Subscribe - http://www.neural.it/subscribe.phtml # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org