Jimmy Wales wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
I've given Drog the go-ahead to link to Wikinews using our logo on the frontpage. I thought that given the recent discussions about logo copyright & licensing, it might be a good idea to report this here.
Erik, you had absolutely no right to do this. Please and politely let them know that they do not have authorization to use the logo in this fashion, and please acknowledge to us that you realize that you should not have done this.
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.
-Mark