[Foundation-l] Use of Wikimedia-Logo's in articles

Anthony wikilegal at inbox.org
Tue Sep 5 00:55:44 UTC 2006


On 9/4/06, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not like there's a copyright violation; as far as I'm concerned, Dutch
> Wikipedia is allowed to use Wikimedia trademarks. However, the concern would
> be if there's any forking involved, in which case it could turn into a fair
> use issue. I'm aware that most Wikimedia projects don't allow fair use.
>
What is your concern, that Wikimedia is going to sue a fork for
violating its copyright?  I really don't see that as likely.

The only problem I see is that the image is proprietary in the first place.

Anthony



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