[Commons-l] Beer and copyright

[geni]

2008/9/19 Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com>:
> Some of you may recall that about 5-6 (?) weeks ago we had a slew of
> deletion requests of beer bottles and cans. If my memory is correct,
> virtually all of them were "keep" under the rationale that the images didn't
> fall under fair use or copyright violations for our purposes. There is a
> fresh DR on this today:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Pacifico_lata.jpg
>
> And another just closed as delete the other day. We have numerous images
> that are ostensibly just, well, images of products:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Marmite-Guinness_edition.JPG
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:A_bottle_of_Budweiser.JPG
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stolichnaya.jpg
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stoli.jpg
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ursuswodka.JPG
>
> This isn't specific to alcohol products, of course--just went for those as
> they seem to be the topic of discussion. Should we be hosting such images?
>
> - Joe


Ets-Hokin v. Skyy Spirits, Inc., 225 F.3d 1068 (9th Cir. 2000) says sometimes.



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geni