On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, David Gerard wrote:
Smartie960's user page has this bouncing Wikipedia logo, which clicking on
takes you to Special:Random.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bouncywikilogo.gif
I know the logo is copyrighted, but I suppose people can put it on their
userpage? I find it distracting in this case, but since apparently a number
of other users put it on their user pages then it's okay?
Put it this way: the
risk of the Foundation suing is 0.
But Wikipedia's fair use policy is not just based on people suing; in fact,
there are things which are legal fair use under the law which are prohibited
by Wikipedia's policy against using copyrighted images.
So I don't think "obviously the Foundation won't sue" applies here.
It's
still a copyvio.