Legal threat to wiki listing site

[temi]

The legal dispute is over alleged misrepresentation
A business listings website set up by a father and daughter in the UK has been threatened with legal action by directory firm Yell.
Yellowikis was set up in 2004 by Paul Youlten and 14-year-old Rosa Blaus, from Sussex, to let anyone create or amend a listings page.

The website has almost 5,000 listings for firms around the world.


full story: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5169674.stm

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Sorry, but they deserve everything they get. They are blatantly using the yellow pages trademark on the home page.

 

[temi]

That is rather very cheeky to use a big brand trademark on your site without due licensing

 

[PrivateInvestigator]

yeah, but I think they may be worth too little for yellow pages to sue them for profit. Usually in cases like this the smaller website just changes the webpages to make them legal.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Yeh they are doing a great job of it so far.

Welcome to Yellowikis


Yellow Pages for the 21st Century

 

[lawman]

Re: subject at hand.

That's nuts! I can't belive that people would go to such great lengths and not proper permission. Idiots.