[Foundation-l] Fair use images

[Gerard Meijssen]

Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> On 3/10/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> It is a disservice to our users not to have logos in Commons. People
>> often know the logos of companies or products better then they do the
>> name. An article like IBM, Shell, Greenpeace should have the company
>> logo to illustrate the article.
>>
>>     
> I really don't see how one necessitates the other.  Commons doesn't
> have articles, after all.  If you put logos into Commons, then you
> make it much harder for anyone who wants to legally distribute dumps
> of Commons.
>
> Of course, by that rationale, the WMF logo shouldn't be on Commons
> either.  Either that, or it should be released under a free license.
>
> Anthony
Hoi,
Commons does not have articles. Commons has its own functionality. Its 
purpose is to serve digital content to the WMF projects first and as a 
repository of content second. At this moment we cannot have logos 
because they need protection from people making derivatives. 
Organisations  cannot license us to have their logo under anything but a 
ND license. It is dogma that prevents us from considering this.

Thanks,
   GerardM