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  1. What ever happened to Project Gutenberg 2? by PetoskeyGuy · · Score: 1 · on Distributed Proofreaders Posts 5,000th E-book

    This previous story mentions a possible split with a company charging for all the books and taking the name. I see now that http://www.projectgutenberg.info/ doesn't seem to be selling books anymore, but www.worldebooklibrary.com is up. Did they give up the Project Gutenberg trademark?

  2. Re:TM Registration by arb · · Score: 1 · on Project Gutenberg 2 Raises Some Hackles
    In fact, the PG2 website also states that they have no affiliation with or support from the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.

    Project Gutenberg 2 is not affiliated with the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and has received no funding, materials, or any other support from the Foundation.


    This seems to be somewhat at odds with the claim they have on the AboutUs page.
  3. Thank you by Gleef · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Project Gutenberg 2 Raises Some Hackles

    I was unaware at the time of writing that they were using the Trademark with permission . Generally, if you are using someone else's trademark with permission, among other things you identify whose trademark it is as part of the message, something like "Project Gutenberg is a trademark of Michael Hart".

    Since I saw no such notice on the Project Gutenberg 2 Website, I assumed they were in violation of the trademark.

    Assuming they are legitimately using the trademark, this is a really disappointing usage. They give no credit to the work of the volunteers of Project Gutenberg, and they make their site sound like they are the new, improved replacement for the project. This is confusing to many people, and seriously dilutes the trademark, two things that licensing is supposed to minimize. *sigh*

  4. Re:TM Registration by BiggerIsBetter · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Project Gutenberg 2 Raises Some Hackles

    So given that Project Gutenburg(tm) is actually affiliated with Project Gutenburg 2(tm), and that there's nothing on the Project Gutenburg(tm) news page about this... I'd guess the list reponse went something like this:

    Michael Hart: PWNED!
    Project Gutenburg(tm) volunteers: DOH!

  5. Not entirely by Gleef · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Project Gutenberg 2 Raises Some Hackles
    "Project Gutenberg 2" seems to me to be run by completely different people, specifically the World eBook Library Consortia.

    The real Project Gutenberg is unchanged. Furthermore, the whole idea of the original project seems (at least to me) to be to take Public Domain works, and make them freely available to as many people as possible so they can do what they want with them. If what you want to do is sell PDF eBooks with these works, that's fine. To quote the notice on the top of Project Gutenberg works:

    This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net


    So the problem here isn't what these people are doing, but the cynical and callous adoption of the "Project Gutenberg" name, which seems designed to cause confusion in the community and the market. I think it might be time for Project Gutenberg to remind the World eBook Library Consortia the nature of trademarks.
  6. Uptime 99.98%??? by yudan · · Score: 2, Funny · on Project Gutenberg 2 Raises Some Hackles
    In this page it states
    Since our initial launch time our webservers have had a 99.98% up time 24 hours a day, 7 days a week ...
    Posting a story about it on slashdot will definitely change their stated uptime. :-)