On 4/13/05, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
While the current placement doesn't qualify, I don't see why they need "authorization" to use the logo to link to Wikipedia. That's a clearly factual use of the logo covered by fair use, and in fact we do the same thing with other companies' logos in thousands of Wikipedia articles.
I would agree with this in terms of their use of the logo, since many other sites, including answers.com (which Jimbo has apparently approved) use the logo on pages where they use Wikipedia content. It is only the wording on TheWorldForum.org which makes the relationship unclear.
A draft trademark and logo policy http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_and_trademark_policy is under discussion on the legal mailing list. It currently states: "You may use the names and logos of Wikimedia projects to refer to us, link to us, credit us, encourage donations, talk about us, label news stories about us and so on. We have particular banners for some of these purposes."
In view of this, I think that Erik was justified in telling The World Forum that they could use the logo, since that use alone is in accordance with the policy. He hasn't approved the part about them claiming to be "in association with Wikinews" and will hopefully be able to ask them to remove this part. If sites make clear what the relationship to Wikimedia is, then I believe this sort of use can be encouraged, which is what the banners and buttons page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Banners_and_buttons) has been doing for years.
Angela.