On 9/14/07, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Has there been any effort on English Wikipedia to separate trademarked images from the other non-free images, besides the upload logo tag?
For example, the copyright for Krazy Kat appears to have not been renewed, however King Features is using trademarks to protect the comics. See [[Image:1937_1107_kkat_brick_500.jpg]].
Note that German Wikipedia appears to often use the German definitions of trademark and copyright law, in which most simple logos are non-copyrightable.
It's really hard to tell if an image has fallen out of copyright or not through non-renewal; I've never gotten a wholly satisfactory answer about what happens to the copyright of an image only published as part of a larger work, if one but not all copyrighted works in which it was published were not renewed.
-Matt