[WikiEN-l] Fair use image galleries in articles

[Minh Nguyen]

Justin Cormack wrote:
> On 22 Apr 2006, at 21:40, 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.
> 
> Justinc

In fact, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS_idents> is a good example of 
how to write articles on things as trivial (?) as logos -- as with 
company's hisorical logos, explaining network idents over the years 
requires a sizable amount of fair use, and this article seems to do it 
well, since the images haven't swallowed up the article.

There's also <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_television_idents>, but 
that article contains much less in the way of explanation, and might be 
harder to justify under [[WP:NOT]] and fair use.

See also 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Film_and_television_logo_descriptions>.

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