On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Mike Godwin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:03 PM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Are you saying that the PD tag on this page is incorrect? >> >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Volvo_logo.svg > > Oh, I'm saying something much more lawyerly than that -- I'm saying I don't > know whether Volvo would accept the declaration that the logo is not > protected by copyright.
Mike, Of course we don't know - the only two ways of knowing is for Volvo to explicitly state this in a legally binding wording, or for it to be decided by a court. There have been similar decisions by courts, both overseas and in the US, and it is on that basis that we have a "PD-text" tag. In your earlier comment, which you have now snipped, you asserted that Sv.Wp was doing the wrong thing: "I hope no one thinks Swedish Wikipedians (or anyone else) is free to reuse the Volvo logo without a license." Do you now accept that it is quite possible that this logo could be appropriately tagged as PD and its use in Sv.Wp articles is congruent with their position about the removal of non-free WMF logos from articles? -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
