[WikiEN-l] Fair use image galleries in articles

[Philip Welch]

On Apr 23, 2006, at 6:23 AM, Ilmari Karonen wrote:

>>> Without seeing any particular examples, my opinion would be that a
>>> gallery of past logos used to document the evolution of the visual
>>> identity of the company in question generally ought to be acceptable
>>> fair use.
>>
>> *If* you are talking about the evolution of the company logo.
>> *Not* if you are just talking about the company.
>>
>> Do we have articles about the history of individual company logos?
>> Not in these cases (yet). So not fair use. Just pretty copyvio pics.
>
> An article about the historical logos used by a company would probably
> be a candidate for merging with the main article about the company.
> Such a merger does not generally affect the validity of fair use  
> claims
> for images included in the merged content.

Most of what can be said can be said in the image captions. For  
instance, [[Wang Laboratories]]. Other articles have a specific  
section, such as [[Apple Computer#Logo]]

> More generally, "pretty copyvio pics" sounds like a straw man argument
> to me.  Who in their right mind would consider a company logo pretty?

Some company logos are indeed pretty.

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Philip L. Welch
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