On 7/24/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I would be very surprised if the Coca-Cola Company has ever complained about the use of its logo in any informative material. They're smart enough to know that showing the logo is good advertising for them.
We can't permit users to use "no one will complain" as a justification in our policy because we can not expect a substantial percentage of the editing community to be qualified to make such judgements.
We have, in fact, had places where people claimed that "no one would complain" when later the copyright holder did end up finding the violation and issuing a complaint.
Even cases that would seem safe to well considered analysis are not always so sound. A "it's free promotion" argument quickly turns to dust when our NPOV article fairly covers the latest scandal that the subject would like hidden under a rug... and their "they won't complain" quickly turns into prosecution.