On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 14:07 +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 5 August 2010 10:18, Stephen Tilley <step...@tilley.net> wrote: > > Do we know if the BBC asked for permission to use another organisation's > > logo in this way? > > I don't see why they would need to. There is certainly no trademark > violation, since the way it was used couldn't confuse anyone into > thinking the BBC was associated with Wikipedia, and think the fair use > exemption to copyright would apply (they are essentially providing > commentary on the logo).
This is not the United States of America. It is *fair dealing*, not fair use. But, yes. Essentially Thomas is correct. -- Brian McNeil, Wikinewsie. http://www.wikinewsie.org | http://en.wikinewsie.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), a 501(c) registered non-profit which is also responsible for Wikipedia. Wikinewsies are community-accredited freelance journalists who are regularly published on the English-language Wikinews. They do not represent the WMF, or Wikinews, in an official capacity. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
