On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:31 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In your earlier comment, which you have now snipped, you asserted that
Sv.Wp was doing the wrong thing:
"I hope no one thinks Swedish Wikipedians (or anyone else) is free to
reuse the Volvo logo
without a license."
Not quite. I think Sv.Wp is doing the right thing but with the wrong
justification. And I was trying to say I don't think downstream re-users
should infer the appearance of the Volvo logo on Sv.Wp that they have the
right to reuse it as a public-domain image.
Do you now accept that it is quite possible that this logo could be
appropriately tagged as PD and its use in Sv.Wp
articles is congruent
with their position about the removal of non-free WMF logos from
articles?
I wouldn't say "quite possible," no. I suspect Volvo's IP attorneys
have a
different opinion about whether the Volvo logo is public-domain than perhaps
you do.
As I see the energy poured into the question of whether the Wikipedia should
use copyrighted and trademarked logos (which they are already licensed to
use!), I cannot help but agree with the sentiment expressed earlier that the
Swedish Wikipedians have come up with a solution in search of a problem.
--Mike