I agree.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">14 Sep 2005 22:26:00 +0200, Claus Färber <claus@xn--<a href="http://frber-gra.muc.de">frber-gra.muc.de</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jimmy Wales <<a href="mailto:jwales@wikia.com">jwales@wikia.com</a>> schrieb/wrote:<br>> The core goal of Commons is maximal reuse.<br><br>Maximal reuse might result in minial content.<br><br>I think every restriction should be evaluated to determine whether the
<br>image is still "free enough".<br><br>With copyright, that's quite easy: Copyright restricts nearly every act<br>of redistribution, so it makes sense to require that images and other<br>media need to have a "free license".[1]
<br><br>On the other hand, trademarks only restricts labelling products with the<br>image or impersonating the owner, i.e. "trademarkish" use. IMO(!),<br>that's still "free enough".<br><br>Further, there's a conflict if you include "trademarkish" use within the
<br>maximal reuse goal of Wikimedia: If someone really starts to use an<br>image on Commons as a trademark, it's likely to become protected as a<br>trademark (and incompatible with the maximal reuse goal).<br><br>Finally, there are some practical problems with a strict no-trademark
<br>policy. As everything can be trademarked, you would have to do regular<br>trademark searches with every trademark registry. You can't ask the<br>author/source of an image (especially if it's PD or depicts something<br>
found in nature) and there are very few things that can't be trademarked<br>(and virtually none the upload of which to Commons makes sense).<br><br>> Commercial logos are frequently under _both_ trademark _and_<br>> copyright.
<br><br>If it's also copyrighted (and not under a free license), the situation<br>is clear: Wikimedia Commons can't host it.<br><br>-------------------------------<br>[1] You can argue what constitudes a "free" license. Some people
<br> consider no modification licenses free enough, some consider<br> copyleft/share-alike/GNU licenses too restrictive.<br><br>Claus<br>--<br><a href="http://www.faerber.muc.de">http://www.faerber.muc.de</a><br><br>
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>um abraço,<br> Felipe