On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote:
> Le 20/02/2014 22:51, Brion Vibber a écrit : > > TLD proliferation is a scam by money-hungry registrars who want people to > > register (and thus pay) in multiple TLDs to "protect their brands". > > > > I recommend we boycott/ignore these various things and just avoid them, > but > > I know we're going to end up registering a bunch for the "brand > protection" > > (racket). > > To the lawyers around there: > > Can a trademark owner sue the registrar directly? After all it sold a > product (the domain) using your trademark. > Remember that "wiki" is not a WMF trademark :) But presumably if someone registered something like pedia.wiki we'd have a variety of tools to have to address the problem. Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 NOTICE: *This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.* _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
