On 11 December 2014 at 16:54, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Steven,
No Stephen, this is toxic -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZuxwVk7TU
My response was a hard truth unfortunately. As is my comments at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Green_tea_... about your long, whiny post.
Thanks for reading
Russavia
Really? The relevant caselaw isn't as clear as you appear to suggest. In particular the judges in the Ninth Circuit ruling (WMF is based in California so Ninth Circuit) have explicit rejected the idea that labels on useful articles (which packaging generally is) creative derivative when dealing with product photography. I am admittedly unaware of any case-law considering labels vs stuff directly printed onto packing but the general principles seem to hold.