The official name of the WSFS Mark Protection Committee is "Mark Protection Committee." It is defined in the WSFS Constitution thus:
1.7.1: There shall be a Mark Protection Committee of WSFS, which shall be responsible for registration and protection of the marks used by or under the authority of WSFS.
There is the little matter of "Worldcon," and "WSFS" and "World Science Fiction Convention" and "World Science Fiction Society," which are also the MPC's responsibility. The worldcon.org and wsfs.org web sites are under the MPC's charge. In fact, the most serious challenge to WSFS's intellectual property that caused the MPC to have to go into overdrive was when it had to challenge the Association of Energy Engineers over their convention they called "Worldcon" (they later changed it to "Globalcon."
The MPC actually is responsible for more non-Hugo-related service marks than Hugo-related ones.
(Note: posted before I saw the subsequent posts. I'm leaving it up because it quotes the MPC's formal authority and charter as the only permanent body of WSFS. The other semi-permanent bodies are charted as committees of the Business Meeting, not of WSFS, which is a fine distinction, I know, but relatively important.)
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Date: 2011-08-13 05:58 pm (UTC)There is the little matter of "Worldcon," and "WSFS" and "World Science Fiction Convention" and "World Science Fiction Society," which are also the MPC's responsibility. The worldcon.org and wsfs.org web sites are under the MPC's charge. In fact, the most serious challenge to WSFS's intellectual property that caused the MPC to have to go into overdrive was when it had to challenge the Association of Energy Engineers over their convention they called "Worldcon" (they later changed it to "Globalcon."
The MPC actually is responsible for more non-Hugo-related service marks than Hugo-related ones.
(Note: posted before I saw the subsequent posts. I'm leaving it up because it quotes the MPC's formal authority and charter as the only permanent body of WSFS. The other semi-permanent bodies are charted as committees of the Business Meeting, not of WSFS, which is a fine distinction, I know, but relatively important.)