Todd Allen wrote:
If all we need is -some- kind of visual, we could easily enough do a free-content picture of a band in the album article or the like. I doubt most people could tell you what more than a handful of album covers or corporate logos look like, but could probably tell you the -names- of hundreds. (I bet you that more people know the name Microsoft, Coca-Cola, or IBM than know what the logo looks like.) There are some logos which have become iconic, such as Nike's, and I don't have any problem with those. But the vast majority are just decorative, or at the very least serve a limited educational purpose.
That's your personal opinion.
Such theoretical and limited benefits are not worth real and serious damage to the other half of the mission-"free as in freedom".
What serious damage? If the usage really is a fair one there is no damage.
I can respect an argument based onan ethical position that such usage is not done, but not an argument that is based on a total lack of understanding of the legal environment.
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