Talk:Infringement Festival

Why was the word "infringement" selected, as part of the name?
Thank you for your patience, if (it turns out that) I am just a clueless n00b, and [if] everyone else already knows the answer to this question.

I followed a link from https://www.facebook.com/nancy.sterman/posts/10154241774843446 ... to the web page https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/2016-buffalo-infringement-festival#/ ; ... and I still could not find any explanation there, of the reason why the "Buffalo Infringement Festival" has the word "infringement" as part of its name.

Well, OK, obviously it is the Buffalo, New York "instance" of an "Infringement Festival". But, ... why does an "Infringement Festival" [have to] have the word "infringement" as part of its name?

I suspect that the answer involves some story, and that there is more to the story than what I (now) know. That is why I did a look-up (using a search engine) (and it was probably Google) and found [as one of the "search results"] a link to this Wikipedia article, "Infringement Festival". I was hoping that this article would answer my question. Sadly, it does not [do so] ["at this time"]. I hope (and recommend) that, in the future, this Wikipedia article -- "Infringement Festival" -- will be edited / improved ... and, that then, it will answer my question.

Any comments? or questions? --Mike Schwartz (talk) 09:20, 29 June 2016 (UTC)


 * When the above was written, I did not know that there is a whole Wikipedia Category called "Category:Fringe_festivals", and that [the (Category) page, for] it, says:"The main article for this category is Fringe theatre.", ...wherein the last two words there -- "Fringe theatre" -- form a hyperlink that points to [the article about] "Fringe theatre".


 * But even now that I know that, I still do not feel qualified to tell the story (about the etymology) -- (both the etymology of [the term] "Fringe_festivals", and that of "Infringement Festivals") -- because I still do not know / understand the story well enough, myself.


 * The first (lede) paragraph of [the article about] "Fringe theatre" does mention "New York's Off-Off-Broadway theatres and Europe's 'free theater' groups."
 * But IMHO that still leaves me unqualified to tell the [etymology] story [well enough]. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 09:49, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

The story still seems incomplete

 * The article does mention something about "the trademarking of the word "Fringe" by the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals." However, I think that a full understanding of how that fits in to the "History" here (and the full story) ... would require some information that is not [yet] there.


 * Is there an assumption that the reader already knows the story? (If so, then the assumption is not [yet] true for this reader [me].) Probably not; ... it is (more likely) a situation in which this article -- like many Wikipedia articles, at least in their earlier versions -- is a work in progress, and has room for improvement. ("So many ideas for edits ... so little time!")


 * So, ...if there is a reader out there, who does already know the story, then that person might be well qualified to expand the explanation, in the body of this article. ...and/or, to chime in here, with some information, (or maybe hyperlinks to web pages with such information) which could then be digested, and used by some [other] editor, to make changes to the article. IMHO that would be great. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 18:52, 2 August 2016 (UTC)