On Oct 30, 2014 6:06 AM, "James Alexander" jamesofur@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Allan J. Aguilar ralgis@vmail.me wrote:
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:15:17 -0500 Yana Welinder ywelinder@wikimedia.org wrote:
To address Allan's question, this does not affect the trademark status of the logos as governed by the new trademark policy: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy.
Thank you, Yana.
However, as someone who understand little about copyright and trademarks, for me it is difficult to understand how can a logo be used commercially and not at the same time, and how can a logo be edited in any but at the same time it only can be published according to specific visual guidelines.
Are the logos Free Cultural Works (as defined by Erik Möller on http://freedomdefined.org) or not?
I don't think Erik was completely thinking about trademarks when he wrote that but I would say no, essentially nothing covered by a trademark would completely meet that definition. (and there would be major issues in my mind with not covering our major logos by trademark) Even the Creative Commons logos doesn't (for that matter I don't think the CC Logo is even under a CC License, at least not a by-sa one).
The license is clear, and wmf is an expert in these licenses . So a previous trademark is void in the respect where it restricts what is defined in the license?
Rupert