http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_method=full%26objectid=18721683%2...
Pretty good, actually. Long interview with Charles Matthews, shorter chat with me.
A selection of amusing deleted stuff from BJAODN.
- d.
Nintendo Wii gets more attention on Wikipedia than Hitler or World War Two?
Oh dear, sometimes I despair of our fellow editors....
Mind you, who am I to judge, I am sure someone looking at my contributions would see some questionable choices of topic
On 08/03/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_method=full%26objectid=18721683%2...
Pretty good, actually. Long interview with Charles Matthews, shorter chat with me.
A selection of amusing deleted stuff from BJAODN.
- d.
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On 3/8/07, James Hardy wikimediauk@weeb.biz wrote:
Nintendo Wii gets more attention on Wikipedia than Hitler or World War Two?
Oh dear, sometimes I despair of our fellow editors....
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awful-links/awful-link-4103.php
Does anyone know what the English law restrictions are on using a logo?
I am making a video which, inter alia, mentions a whole bunch of web-based applications, and I'm including logos of the companies I mention.
I seem to remember that Wikipedia was a bit touchy about people using their logo, but fair use seems to allow it if you are talking about the logo's owner.
An up to date opinion on this would be useful.
On 02/11/2007, Stephen Streater sbstreater@mac.com wrote:
Does anyone know what the English law restrictions are on using a logo?
Legally you can't use it without the copyright holder's permission (in this case the wikimedia foundation) unless your actions are in line with the fair dealing provisions of UK copyright law. You could just ask the foundation for permission.
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In English law it is called "fair dealing". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikipedia-logo.png for the copyright template. I seem to recall the Foundation allows the logo to be used in for example press reporting about Wikipedia and so on. See also http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Visual_identity_guidelines
I am not a lawyer :)
On 02/11/2007, Stephen Streater sbstreater@mac.com wrote:
Does anyone know what the English law restrictions are on using a logo?
I am making a video which, inter alia, mentions a whole bunch of web-based applications, and I'm including logos of the companies I mention.
I seem to remember that Wikipedia was a bit touchy about people using their logo, but fair use seems to allow it if you are talking about the logo's owner.
An up to date opinion on this would be useful.
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo and it will be mostly granted unless you're trying to make a huge business out of it and/or make something that could be confounded with Wikipedia (e.g. another encyclopedia)
Yours, Michael
On 11/2/07, Gary Kirk gary.kirk@gmail.com wrote:
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In English law it is called "fair dealing". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikipedia-logo.png for the copyright template. I seem to recall the Foundation allows the logo to be used in for example press reporting about Wikipedia and so on. See also http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Visual_identity_guidelines
I am not a lawyer :)
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Does anyone know what the English law restrictions are on using a logo?
I am making a video which, inter alia, mentions a whole bunch of web-based applications, and I'm including logos of the companies I mention.
I seem to remember that Wikipedia was a bit touchy about people using their logo, but fair use seems to allow it if you are talking about the logo's owner.
An up to date opinion on this would be useful.
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
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On Fri, November 2, 2007 20:59, Michael Bimmler wrote:
Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo and...
Actually, Wikimedia UK can give permission if it is an acceptable purpose. Write me ...
alison.wheeler@wikimedia.org.uk
Alison
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 21:05 +0000, Alison Wheeler wrote:
On Fri, November 2, 2007 20:59, Michael Bimmler wrote:
Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo and...
Actually, Wikimedia UK can give permission if it is an acceptable purpose. Write me ...
From my reading of the email, Wikimedia (Wikipedia) was an example rather than the question :
"I am making a video which, inter alia, mentions a whole bunch of web-based applications, and I'm including logos of the companies I mention."
KTC
Hi!
My company writes an application accessible through a web browser, so I would like to put this is context of other modern applications accessed the same way, by listing some.
The ones I am planning to mention are: Yahoo!, Google, Ebay, Amazon, myspace, Wikipedia, facebook and YouTube.
I'll write to you and see what you think.
Stephen
On 2 Nov 2007, at 21:05, Alison Wheeler wrote:
On Fri, November 2, 2007 20:59, Michael Bimmler wrote:
Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo and...
Actually, Wikimedia UK can give permission if it is an acceptable purpose. Write me ...
alison.wheeler@wikimedia.org.uk
Alison
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Yes, the Foundation has an agreement with Wikimedia UK allowing the use of its logo for many purposes; as CEO, Alison can allow you to use it through Wikimedia UK. :-)
On 11/2/07, Alison Wheeler wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com wrote:
On Fri, November 2, 2007 20:59, Michael Bimmler wrote:
Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo and...
Actually, Wikimedia UK can give permission if it is an acceptable purpose. Write me ...
alison.wheeler@wikimedia.org.uk
Alison
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Thanks :-)
I've emailed Alison with more details.
I think it comes under the Fair use clause "criticism and review", but Alison can make her own judgement.
On 3 Nov 2007, at 03:55, Casey Brown wrote:
Yes, the Foundation has an agreement with Wikimedia UK allowing the use of its logo for many purposes; as CEO, Alison can allow you to use it through Wikimedia UK. :-)
On 11/2/07, Alison Wheeler wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com wrote: On Fri, November 2, 2007 20:59, Michael Bimmler wrote:
Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo
and...
Actually, Wikimedia UK can give permission if it is an acceptable purpose. Write me ...
alison.wheeler@wikimedia.org.uk
Alison
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Clarification: I had assumed that this was beng dne for Wikiedia UK; if you are a thirdy party requesting use of the logo, it is best to just go through the Foundation.
On 11/2/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, the Foundation has an agreement with Wikimedia UK allowing the use of its logo for many purposes; as CEO, Alison can allow you to use it through Wikimedia UK. :-)
On 11/2/07, Alison Wheeler wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com wrote:
On Fri, November 2, 2007 20:59, Michael Bimmler wrote:
Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo and...
Actually, Wikimedia UK can give permission if it is an acceptable purpose. Write me ...
alison.wheeler@wikimedia.org.uk
Alison
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Alison Wheeler wrote:
On Fri, November 2, 2007 20:59, Michael Bimmler wrote:
Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo and...
Actually, Wikimedia UK can give permission if it is an acceptable purpose. Write me ...
alison.wheeler@wikimedia.org.uk
Alison
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The agreement is here
http://internal.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters/Agreement_between_chap...
I have no idea whether you signed it already :-)
Ant
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 20:47 +0000, Stephen Streater wrote:
Does anyone know what the English law restrictions are on using a logo?
I am making a video which, inter alia, mentions a whole bunch of web-based applications, and I'm including logos of the companies I mention.
I seem to remember that Wikipedia was a bit touchy about people using their logo, but fair use seems to allow it if you are talking about the logo's owner.
An up to date opinion on this would be useful.
(IANAL)
It would really depends on how you're using it, as logo is copyrighted & / trademarked, so would fall under the laws regarding "fair dealing" just like text etc.
Some links that might help (or might not): http://copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/uk_law_summary http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/ukpga_19880048_en_3#pt1-ch3-pb2-l1g30 http://copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p09_fair_use http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/protect/logo_copyright
KTC
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