[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia logo copyrights

ultrablue at gmail.com ultrablue at gmail.com
Tue May 24 09:03:47 UTC 2005


I recently uploaded the two old Wikipedia logos to place them on the
History of Wikipedia article. However, I am unsure how to tag the
images, because of their unclear copyright status (one of them
definitely pre-dates the Wikimedia Foundation). Furthermore, I do not
know who created the initial one, all I know is it was created for
Nupedia and instead used on Wikipedia. The two images are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki_logo_Nupedia.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki_logo_The_Cunctator.png

I don't want to tag the images because of their unclear copyright
status, but I don't want them to be deleted for not being tagged. Can
someone clarify if the Wikimedia Foundation owns the copyrights to
both of these images? If so, wouldn't it be appropriate to create a
new image copyright tag for *copyrighted* images of the Wikimedia
Foundation? Surely the free-images-only provision does not extend to
site logos etc.

~Mark Ryan



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