For instance, for the Netscape icon http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Nuvola_apps_netscape.png we apparently can only use it in limited cases and are supposed to include the text:
"Netscape, Netscape Certificater Server, Netscape FastTrack Server, Netscape Navigator, Netscape ONE, SuiteSpot, and the Netscape N and Ship's Wheel logos are registered trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation in the United States and other countries. [List other Netscape product names used in your document] are also trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation, which may be registered in other countries." (from http://wp.netscape.com/legal_notices/trademarks.html)
So it would seem to me that we shouldn't have the trademarked images that we can only use in limited cases anyways.
Laurascudder
On 9/15/05, Laura Scudder laurascudder@gmail.com wrote:
IANAL, but wouldn't icons such as http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Nuvola_apps_licq.png be trademarked still?
Laurascudder
On 9/15/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Alphax wrote:
Well, the Firefox and Wikipedia logos are both copyrighted and trademarked. Recreating them from scratch would at least solve the first issue.
That's just wrong. Recreating them from scratch would not solve the first issue at all.
That's like saying that if I type in all of a Harry Potter book from scratch, it's no longer copyrighted.
Argh, I meant in the same style, not the exact same thing... so if someone created an image of white globe with a chunk taken out of the top and letters all over it, and an orange stylised fox wrapped around it... would that be any better?
Please, I ask people, don't speculate on legal matters unless and until you've learned more about them.
As an aside: I've replaced some of the images in question (at least on [[User:NSR/userboxes]] with icons from the Nuvola icon set for KDE (shameless plug: these are going on Commons, linked from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nuvola), which are licensed under the LGPL, so if anyone wants to complain about the copyright or whatever on them, they can ask David Vignoni (the author) about them.
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