Close to 4 years ago trademark policy with WordPress was confusing.
Automattic registered the WordPress trademark and began sending out letters to domain owners who provided goods and services around the WordPress brand.
They actually started sending out these letters and emails before the trademark was even published for opposition.
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Rand Fishkin has an interesting post on the benefits of linking to other people.
It is actually quite a sterile look on the practice, and doesn’t mention one important concept.
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I am making this post to give some “equal weighting” to the level of news coverage, that my previous post on the Worpress Trademark issue received.
This time around it is really good news
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First of all a general overview of the current Wordpress Trademark discussion, and then my own theory as to why Automattic have selectively approached 2 legitimate services to stop using the Wordpress Trademark.
