On 7/24/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
I would be very surprised if the Coca-Cola Company has
ever complained
about the use of its logo in any informative material. They're smart
enough to know that showing the logo is good advertising for them.
We can't permit users to use "no one will complain" as a justification
in our policy because we can not expect a substantial percentage of
the editing community to be qualified to make such judgements.
We have, in fact, had places where people claimed that "no one would
complain" when later the copyright holder did end up finding the
violation and issuing a complaint.
Even cases that would seem safe to well considered analysis are not
always so sound. A "it's free promotion" argument quickly turns to
dust when our NPOV article fairly covers the latest scandal that the
subject would like hidden under a rug... and their "they won't
complain" quickly turns into prosecution.