[Foundation-l] Requests to use the foundations' trademarks/logos.

[Sean Whitton]

As far as I'm aware the board needs to explicitely approve any use of
their logos. Last time it was asked for on IRC, Angela directed the
user to drop a line to board at wikimedia.org, so it might be sensible to
forward that to there.

On 14/07/06, Jack <jackdt at gmail.com> wrote:
> The USA Library of Congress has requested permission to include
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict> in their collection of
> Internet material concerning the crisis in Darfur.
>
> They wish to
> 1. archive the page at regular intervals, and
> 2. publish it on their publicly accessible web site.
>
> They completely reproduce pages for archival purposes: capturing all
> identifying site documentation, including URL, trademark, copyright
> statement, ownership, publication date
> <http://www.loc.gov/webcapture/faq.html>; so the GFDL requirements are
> met, but what about the trademark/logo? Who needs to give permission
> or refuse?
>
> WikiMedia OTRS ticket: 2006071110012086
> LC Reference: Darfur 88979 CD
>
> The College Art Association is also asking to reuse the Wikipedia logo
> in a news <http://www.collegeart.org/news/> article (OTRS
> 2006071110016751).
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