[Foundation-l] Wikimedia/Wikipedia trademarks?

[David Gerard]

On 18/12/2007, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:

> Most cases are like this, newspapers are often a case where they can use the
> logo under fair use provisions (as we do on Wikinews for Google &c). Yes, we
> need to encourage people to ask, yes we need to be generous in granting
> rights to use, and NO, we don't want to persecute people who in ignorance
> use the logo unless it is to defame the Foundation.


Yeah. These are fair use anyway, but they keep asking, so we put a
blanket permission on the press page of wikimediafoundation.org ;-)


- d.