[Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

Mike Godwin mgodwin at wikimedia.org
Tue Mar 30 15:22:19 UTC 2010


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John Vandenberg writes:


> By the way, check out <http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo>. ?I hope no one
> > thinks Swedish Wikipedians (or anyone else) is free to reuse the Volvo
> logo
> > without a license.
>
> That image is in the PD as it does not meet the threshold of
> originality.  Why do they do not need a license?
>
>
Are you saying that Volvo takes the position that the Volvo logo "does not
meet the threshold of originality" and therefore is not copyrightable?  Can
you cite a source on this?



--Mike


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