[WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia

Seems to me that "Shopping-enabled Wikipedia Page" may be perilously close to a trademark infringement, or what in the UK would be known as "passing off". Contrary to the description, this is not a Wikipedia page at all. The page has no relationship to Wikipedia. This is an *Amazon* page validly using CC free material that has come from Wikipedia. It is reasonable to presume that the casual reader might assume a commercial link between the WMF and Amazon which does not exist - and that the description tends to imply that. I'd like to know if the WMF was consulted over this, and what the lawyers think. Scott -----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Gray Sent: 03 December 2010 13:31 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia On 3 December 2010 13:09, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote: > This stuff will apparently show up in Amazon search results soon-ish: > > http://www.amazon.com/wiki/James_Joyce > > Interesting idea, though I find it slightly disturbing for some reason... The idea seems to be that you'll search for James Joyce, get the page, follow it to buy a paperback of Finnegan's Wake. I do wonder how the traffic is going to find these pages in the first place, I admit...