Hello, what is the copyright status of the application icon for Wikipedia
mobile applications? This one, specifically, as far as I can tell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikipediaMobileAppLogo.png
The copyright information lists it as being fair use, but that seems
strange to me; is this
Most logos are copyrighted even from the WMF, for legal reasons. However
this particular icon is well below the copyright threshold, and thus is not
copyrightable.
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Aleksey Bilogur aleksey.bilo...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello, what is the copyright status of the
I want to use it to illustrate something I'm building in the Wikipedia
domain on the en-wiki, so I'd like to know this for sure. Who's a good
person to ask; or, will they come here instead? :)
I thought that WMF logos can be used freely within the projects, however
that's arranged legally, and
I doubt this logo crosses the originality threshold. The logo is probably
public domain. That said, it's definitely a trademark of the Wikimedia
Foundation, and should be marked as such.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. :-)
Dan
On 18 April 2015 at 08:42, Aleksey Bilogur aleksey.bilo...@gmail.com
On 18 April 2015 at 11:32, Aleksey Bilogur aleksey.bilo...@gmail.com
wrote:
I want to use it to illustrate something I'm building in the Wikipedia
domain on the en-wiki, so I'd like to know this for sure. Who's a good
person to ask; or, will they come here instead? :)
I thought that WMF
The WMF Logos are now all or almost all released under cc-by-sa 3.0 now as
well rather then All Rights Reserved. I think you should be fine but if you
want to be double sure you can email tradema...@wikimedia.org with what
you're thinking and they are very good at getting back to you.
James
On 18 April 2015 at 13:27, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org
wrote:
IANAL, but I know for sure that trademark status and copyright status are
different things. And this thread is definitely asking for the latter...
Well, I've given the answer to both questions now. Is there some other
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:27:09 -0700
Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Since WMF is doing a strategy update (with which I'm not involved,
but hope
that the community can influence), I'm wondering what others
thoughts are
on Wikipedia's strategic opportunities and threats.
What do
Happy to help. :-)
Dan
On 18 April 2015 at 13:56, Aleksey Bilogur aleksey.bilo...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks for the help, all.
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 18 April 2015 at 13:27, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org
wrote:
IANAL,
Hi everyone,
I've made an attempt to correct the licensing, as the W is a Wikimedia
trademark. Feel free to assist if I've made any mistakes.
Heather
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:10 PM, James Alexander jalexan...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
The WMF Logos are now all or almost all released under
Il 18/04/2015 21:01, Dan Garry ha scritto:
On 18 April 2015 at 11:32, Aleksey Biloguraleksey.bilo...@gmail.com
wrote:
I want to use it to illustrate something I'm building in the Wikipedia
domain on the en-wiki, so I'd like to know this for sure. Who's a good
person to ask; or, will they come
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