On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:43 AM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 7 August 2010 08:56, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > John Smith wrote: > >> > >> Even wikipedia doesn't take that attitude, they're currently being > >> threatened by the FBI over a SVG image. > > > > Nothing to do with copyright, and thus completely irrelevant in this > > discussion. > > Wikimedia is claiming fair use, sounds like a copyright argument to me. > Nope. FBI's problem with Wikipedia has nothing to do with copyright. The work in question, the FBI seal, is the work of the U.S. Federal Government which would make it public domain and thus there is no copyright in the first place. FBI's problem is that people might make fake FBI badges and stuff like that because Wikipedia provides a high-quality SVG image of the seal.
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