On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Allan J. Aguilar <ralgis(a)vmail.me> wrote:
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Yana Welinder <ywelinder(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
To address Allan's question, this does not
affect the trademark
status of the logos as governed by the new trademark policy:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy.
Thank you, Yana.
However, as someone who understand little about copyright and
trademarks, for me it is difficult to understand how can a logo be used
commercially and not at the same time, and how can a logo be edited in
any but at the same time it only can be published according to specific
visual guidelines.
Are the logos Free Cultural Works (as defined by Erik Möller on
http://freedomdefined.org) or not?
I don't think Erik was completely thinking about trademarks when he wrote
that but I would say no, essentially nothing covered by a trademark would
completely meet that definition. (and there would be major issues in my
mind with not covering our major logos by trademark) Even the Creative
Commons logos doesn't (for that matter I don't think the CC Logo is even
under a CC License, at least not a by-sa one).
The license is clear, and wmf is an expert in these licenses . So a
previous trademark is void in the respect where it restricts what is
defined in the license?
Rupert