Thanks Yann! We will take care of those files.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Yann Forget <yannfo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Just a note: we can update the license on Commons, but I noticed that
the files were copied locally on
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Someone with the right priviledges will have to do it there.
Regards,
Yann
2014-10-30 17:30 GMT+01:00 Yana Welinder <ywelinder(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Still traveling, but let me see if I can briefly
dispel some of the
confusion.
CC BY-SA 3.0 grants users the right to use an image under copyright law.
It
does not cover trademark rights. The goal of
trademark rights is to
protect
the logo from being used in a way that confuses
the public. Trademark
protection only covers certain types of uses, which are not the same as
use
covered with a copyright license like CC BY-SA
3.0. The Wikimedia
trademark
policy provides how the logos can be used as
trademarks and here is some
discussion about why it does that:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy-purpose#trademark-pur…
.
So are the logos "free" under the Free Culture Definition? Yes, because
the
definition only talks about freedom under
copyright law and lists CC
BY-SA
3.0 as a "free license." The definition
does not mean that users have
freedom to violate other types of rights.
Hope this clarifies!
Yana
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Allan J. Aguilar <ralgis(a)vmail.me>
wrote:
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Yana Welinder <ywelinder(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
To address Allan's question, this does not
affect the trademark
status of the logos as governed by the new trademark policy:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy.
Thank you, Yana.
However, as someone who understand little about copyright and
trademarks, for me it is difficult to understand how can a logo be used
commercially and not at the same time, and how can a logo be edited in
any but at the same time it only can be published according to specific
visual guidelines.
Are the logos Free Cultural Works (as defined by Erik Möller on
http://freedomdefined.org) or not?
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