[Commons-l] Ford releases lots of car photos as CC-BY

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/01/2008, Ian A Holton <poeloq at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Sorry, I'm not an expert on licenses and commons: this means I can
>  > download them all, upload them to Commons, categorize them and then use
>  > them in Wikipedia articles freely, right?
>
>  More or less. I would still avoid uploading any that are basically just a logo.
>  check out
Hmm... some logos are out of copyright, see
http://web.archive.org/web/20070718020059/http://www.anglia-models.co.uk/fordlogo.htm.
The current ford logo has been created in 1976 so is still
copyrighted. The previous logo was created in 1927, so too late to be
surely PD, but maybe it is out of copyright due to those weird renewal
rules?

In any case, Ford is the copyright holder of the logos and they have
the full right to release an image depicting the logo as CC-BY.

Cheers,
Bryan