[Foundation-l] Copyright and cakes...

[Thomas Dalton]

On 5 March 2012 20:22, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 March 2012 14:54, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>> Silly question for you all:
>>
>> Is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_cake.jpg actually
>> copyrighted to the WMF as a WMF logo? The cake was made for Wikimedia UK, so
>> it's technically a derivative work, perhaps...
>
> Its a derivative work. Technically the cake is a copyvio.

It was made for WMUK and WMUK has standing permission to use the logo
for certain purposes, which could probably be interpreted as including
cakes. Therefore, I don't think the cake is a copyvio.