On 12/13/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 12/13/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
"Anthony DiPierro" wikilegal@inbox.org wrote in message news:71cd4dd90512121025r42088e35m38bd4a9e3b045629@mail.gmail.com...
It'll be interesting to see if someone tries to force them to remove the trademarked Wikipedia logo from that site.
According to the footer on that page: "Wikipedia image, in its distorted format (c) Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is used pursuant the fair use doctrine"
IANAL but that sounds pretty demented to me :-)
Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
Well, yeah, in my opinion it's a pretty obvious case of fair use as far as the copyright goes. Doesn't Wikipedia have a tag for "logo of a company on a page about the company". The case for dilution is trickier, but still probably fair use (if it's even dilution in the first place). I think it'd be a horrible mistake to sue them over it, but hey, it'd be an interesting thing to watch.
Anthony
Looking further, apparently the legal doctrine is "trademark disparagement". I don't know much about trademark law, so I'm going to withdraw my statement about whether or not this use is fair use wrt trademark/dilution law.
Anthony