[WikiEN-l] Images of corporate logos

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> From: Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Some images need to be deleted...

This makes me wonder again about the use of corporate logos (see http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s , 
and of course http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logotype )

I tried to formulate a policy, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:
Logos , but the discussion was disappointingly sparse. From the input of 
others, notably JamesDay, I got the impression that people were pretty sure 
that corporate logos were fair use, and that it was OK to include them 
together with a notice explaining that they were (almost certainly) 
trademarks and not GFDL.

(What controversy there was seemed to be between those who felt that the use 
of logos was intrinsically promotional and POV, and those (like myself) who 
thought that it was analogous to including a photo of a living person in an 
article about that person--intrinsically promotional, but appropriate and 
encyclopedic).

Should corporate logos be banned on the basis of licensing issues?