On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Dan Rosenthal <[email protected]> wrote:
> How is it logical for the Wikimedia Foundation, by way of volunteers > supporting the Wikimedia Foundation, be disallowed from having their own > logo on their own website? > > In what universe is this logical? > > The problem with use of copyrighted/trademarked logos is the concern that > the owner of that logo will disallow the use. We do not have this problem. > > The trademark policy also makes it perfectly clear that downstream uses > under the guise of nominative fair use are permissible, so that's not a > concern either. > > So....this is a "solution" in search of a problem. > > -Dan > On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Marco Chiesa wrote: > > > So, if we don't allow the use of the > > logos of Coca-Cola or of the WWF (because they're copyrighted), then > > it seems logical not to use the logos of the WMF projects in the > > articles describing them. > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Hear, hear. *raps walking stick on the floor* -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
