On 8/18/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
The content is public. Anyone can publish a book, or a
DVD or a calendar
or whatever, without having to ask any authorization to anyone. That's
the point of the free license. As long as the license is respected, that
is fine.
The logos (such as Wikipedia) are copyrighted by the Foundation. The
names are trademarks. Some are registered in some countries, not all of
them; but even non registered, there is something to consider.
As such, any use of these (logo or name) must get the approval of the
Foundation (or of a chapter, but let us keep things simple :-)).
Ideally, the authorization should be given on a written document
(contract). There are many reasons for this, which I will not detail here.
Not sure if this idea was already brought up, but how about a new
logo, similar in style but different from the other wikimedia logos,
that can be used without permission, under the condition that the
majority of the contents (might need some legalese phrase here)
originates in a wikimedia project?
So, if I want to make a lulu book from commons images, I can slap this
"made with contents from wikimedia" logo on it. The logo thereby would
be used to indicate the source, not to convey any kind of Foundation
approval. Like "Made in Germany", which is often seen as an indicator
of quality products ;-) without saying "this product was made by the
German government".
The "made with" text could be part of the logo, or mandatory to print
next to it. I have no idea what such a logo should look like, though.
If we only had a mailing list that would be read by people who know
how to make nice images... ;-)
Magnus