{"id":62,"date":"2014-05-26T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2014-05-26T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T12:14:09","slug":"wikipedia-art-controversy-old","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wikipedia-art-controversy-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Art controversy (old)"},"content":{"rendered":"

See http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Wikipedia_Art_controversy&oldid=286017450<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Wikipedia Art Controversy of 2009<\/b> occurred after two artists, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, created a Wikipedia page entitled “Wikipedia Art,” which was meant to serve as a space for collaborative performance art. According to the page’s authors, the page was “removed from the site 15 hours after its birth[1]<\/a><\/sup>,” which prompted the article’s authors to start their own site discussing the article, [1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Ars Technica, artist Scott Kildall received a letter on the 23rd<\/sup> of March, 2009, from Douglas Isenberg, counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, requesting “that the wikipediaart.org domain be transferred to Wikimedia[2]<\/a><\/sup>.” Kildall and Stern subsequently sought counsel from James Martin, who responded to Mr. Isenberg, saying that “We have concluded that my client has not violated any of Wikimedia’s legal rights.”<\/p>\n

Multiple commentators, including Ars Technica and the EFF[3]<\/a><\/sup> have characterized the dispute as one of fair use over the use of trademarks in domain names, supporting Wikipedia Art’s argument that it’s use of the Wikipedia trademark in a noncommercial referential way is protected by fair use.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u2191<\/a> http:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. \u2191<\/a> http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2009\/04\/wikipedia-suit-could-put-it-on-the-wrong-side-of-fair-use.ars<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. \u2191<\/a> http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/04\/wikipedia-threatens-<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    See http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Wikipedia_Art_controversy&oldid=286017450. The Wikipedia Art Controversy of 2009 occurred after two artists, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, created a Wikipedia page entitled “Wikipedia Art,” which was meant to serve as a space for collaborative performance art. According to the page’s authors, the page was “removed from the site 15 hours after its birth[1],” which prompted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikipediaart.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}