You cannot crop a minor trademark element, eg. logo, incidentally located within a "free" photographic image and upload it to Commons as a free use instance of that trademark / logo.
BRUENTRUP
On 12/13/14, JP Béland lebo.beland@gmail.com wrote:
We're talking strictly about copyright here. If not "trademark" that are too simple to be copyrightable would be considered but they are not. The reason the logo would become unacceptable on Commons is based on copyright.
2014-12-13 4:27 GMT-07:00 Marco Chiesa chiesa.marco@gmail.com:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:07 PM, JP Béland lebo.beland@gmail.com wrote:
Russavia wrote "To crop the logo out to appear as it does in your linked to image, it would be a copyvio. " Doesn't the free license we use is supposed to allow (and even force) any modifications of an image to be free also?
Not necessarily. Basically, you cannot release rights you don't have. A simple example: let's say you have a free photo of politician A, and a free photo of porn star B (in some explicit pose). If you crop the head of A and paste on the body of B, it will probably considered illegal in quite a large number of countries. In this case, it's still free copyright-wise...
Cruccone
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