As part of the planned release of the English Wikipedia's "Version 1.0" release, one editor had created a logo for the project based on the Wikipedia globe, which would constitute a derivative work. I recently found out that the logo, found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:WP1_0_Icon.png, was "released" under the GFDL. As this is not possible due to the Foundation's policy, after consulting with Anthere, I changed the copyright of the image to point to the Foundation, as done in the Wikipedia logo page.
I'd like to know if this is enough to transfer ownership of the image to the Foundation, or if there is something left to be done. We might need another derivative logo for a planned test release, dubbed "Wikipedia 0.5" for now, so I would also like to know if doing so would be possible, if it became necessary for the responsible editorial team to do so.
Sincerely,
Titoxd.
Titoxd@Wikimedia wrote:
As part of the planned release of the English Wikipedia's "Version 1.0" release, one editor had created a logo for the project based on the Wikipedia globe, which would constitute a derivative work. I recently found out that the logo, found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:WP1_0_Icon.png, was "released" under the GFDL. As this is not possible due to the Foundation's policy, after consulting with Anthere, I changed the copyright of the image to point to the Foundation, as done in the Wikipedia logo page.
I'd like to know if this is enough to transfer ownership of the image to the Foundation, or if there is something left to be done. We might need another derivative logo for a planned test release, dubbed "Wikipedia 0.5" for now, so I would also like to know if doing so would be possible, if it became necessary for the responsible editorial team to do so.
Sincerely,
Titoxd.
I let the legal and communication issues aside. I would be interested to know what/who is planned to take care of the technical side of it.
Ant
Titoxd <at> Wikimedia <titoxd.wikimedia@...> writes:
... As this is not possible due to the Foundation's policy, after consulting with Anthere, I changed the copyright of the image to point to the Foundation, as done in the Wikipedia logo page.
I think that you would need to ask the copyright holder of the other part (the shiny colored disk around the outside of the Wikipedia logo) whether they agree to transfer the copyright. Did you do this? -- [[User:Kernigh]] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kernigh
I will forward you a correct copyright assignment form, and we'll try to make things correctly :-)
Best,
Jean-Baptiste Soufron wikimedia foundation chief legal officer
Le 4 mai 06 à 05:48, Kernigh a écrit :
Titoxd <at> Wikimedia <titoxd.wikimedia@...> writes:
... As this is not possible due to the Foundation's policy, after consulting with Anthere, I changed the copyright of the image to point to the Foundation, as done in the Wikipedia logo page.
I think that you would need to ask the copyright holder of the other part (the shiny colored disk around the outside of the Wikipedia logo) whether they agree to transfer the copyright. Did you do this? -- [[User:Kernigh]] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kernigh
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On 5/3/06, Kernigh xkernigh@netscape.net wrote:
Titoxd <at> Wikimedia <titoxd.wikimedia@...> writes:
... As this is not possible due to the Foundation's policy, after consulting with Anthere, I changed the copyright of the image to point to the Foundation, as done in the Wikipedia logo page.
I think that you would need to ask the copyright holder of the other part (the shiny colored disk around the outside of the Wikipedia logo) whether they agree to transfer the copyright. Did you do this?
Not if ey released that part into the public domain, which is what is claimed in the first version.
Anthony
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