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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