- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:16:14 +0900
- To: William Henry <william.henry@iona.com>
- Cc: public-ws-policy@w3.org
Some further feedback on the issue from a legal expert within W3C: If one wants to use Contoso Ltd in the Specification and Contoso is a name owned by a company, we are using their trademark which makes us vulnerable to litigation and damages. Hence, the recommendation is not to use company names and rather "example Ltd" UNLESS we have a written permission from the name and trademark owner giving W3C a perpetual non-exclusive right to use the name in this specification for a world wide usage and according to the rules of the W3C document license. Regards, Felix. Best, William Henry wrote: > I suggest Danasir.com or Danasir Inc. > > It seems it's only a proper name not a company: > > http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Danasir&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 > <http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Danasir&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8> > > :-) > > William > > On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Felix Sasaki wrote: > >> >> Philippe Le Hegaret wrote: >> > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:53 -0500, Christopher B Ferris wrote: >> >> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4103 >> >> >> >> Title: Questionable use of fictitious corp. name "Contoso Ltd." >> > >> > >> > >> > I unfortunately missed the call this week despite Felix asking me to >> > attend, but looking at the thread and the discussion on issue 4103, I'd >> > like to point that W3C have guidelines in terms of domain name in >> > examples: >> > [[ >> > Domains in examples adhere to section 3, "Reserved Example Second Level >> > Domain Names," in RFC 2606 [DOMAINS]. Use the domains example.com, >> > example.org, and example.net for all examples. The Internet Assigned >> > Numbers Authority (IANA) reserves them for this purpose. If you need an >> > evocative name, use a machine name (e.g., http://cats.example.org). >> > ]] >> > http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/#Examples >> > >> > Contoso Ltd. doesn't come up as a trademark in the USPTO and a google >> > search seems to agree with that fact as well. I don't believe we have >> > guidelines in terms of trademark... yet. >> >> I talked to some other people within w3c, it is true that there are no >> such guidelines yet. One proposal which came up was to use a company >> name which could be Contoso, but a domain which includes example.com . >> Hence, we would replace the company name Contoso with >> Contoso.example.com, an do the same for URIs, e.g. >> http://real.contoso.com/policy.xml > >> http://real.contoso.example.com/policy.xml >> >> Alternatively, we could pick up "company A" and have >> http://real.a.example.com/policy.xml >> >> Felix >> >
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