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

James Hare messedrocker at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 00:59:01 UTC 2006


I didn't really mean to describe "with permission images" more than I meant
to describe "the trademark and the website both belong to the same NGO".
It's why Wikimedia logos (including projects) can be used out of context on
the English Wikipedia (to an extent, at least).

On 9/4/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/5/06, 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.
>
> You've just described what we call "with permission images" that are
> removed on sight these days.
>
> > However, the concern would
> > be if there's any forking involved, in which case it could turn into a
> fair
> > use issue.
>
> Or any reuse in fact.
>
>
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