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Wikimedia Foundation droht Künstlern wegen wikipedia-kritischem Projekt

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http://wikipediaart.org

Dass die WMF hier mehr als schief liegt, geht aus dem Beitrag der Juristin der renommierten Bürgerrechte-Organisation EFF hervor:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/wikipedia-threatens-

Wikipedia should know better. There is no trademark or cybersquatting issue here. First, the site is entirely noncommercial, which puts it beyond the reach of U.S. trademark law. (We note that Paul Levy of Public Citizen, who has helped establish key precedents on this issue, has signed on to represent Wikipedia Art). Moreover, even if U.S. trademark laws somehow reached this noncommercial activity, the artists’ use of the mark is an obvious fair use. Wikipedia Art uses the “Wikipedia” mark to refer to the project: a critical comment on Wikipedia and creativity. The disputed site describes the project, provides links to media coverage of the project, and so on. It does not use any more of the Wikipedia mark than need be; for example, it doesn’t even use the Wikipedia logo. Simply put, the site does not purport to be, nor does it look anything like, Wikipedia and the artists have done nothing to suggest Wikipedia endorses their work. Finally, the creators are engaging in precisely the kind of critical speech sheltered by the First Amendment.


OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Klaus Graf (27. April 2009). Wikimedia Foundation droht Künstlern wegen wikipedia-kritischem Projekt. Archivalia. Abgerufen am 4. November 2024 von https://doi.org/10.58079/bvbg


Autor: Klaus Graf

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