[Commons-l] Wikimedia Logos on Commons: Possible Solution

[geni]

On 7/27/07, Daniel Arnold <arnomane at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Friday 27 July 2007 12:23:28 Daniel Kinzler wrote:
> > b) make the logos free content, and rely on trademark law to protect them
> > against abuse. This would in theory be the best solution IMHO, but does not
> > seem feasible in practice (trademark registration is per country, for a
> > limited time, for a limited purpose, harder to enforce, and quite expensive
> > if done for all logos in many countries).
>
> Indeed that's the very problem. And relying on moral rights (which could be an
> option too) is a bit too weak for the Foundation.
>
> But I have a third option:
>
> How about creating a "community" icon? An icon that can be used by anyone who
> likes, supports, reuses, whatever the project?
>

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipe-tan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan


There is a commons tan in there somewhere.

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geni