On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Andrew Turvey wrote: > I had an interesting conversation with a senior BBC exec on this the other > day. Apparently, their lawyers aren't sufficiently comfortable with the > copyright violation checking on Wikimedia Commons to be able to rely on free > photographs, so they don't use them. Bizarrely they'd rather pay someone for > an image, and hence be able to sue them if they had copyright problems, than > get it for free. > > Which brings to mind an interesting business proposition.....
Some have attempted to take this route when it comes to free and open source software: to indemnify or provide insurance against copyright problems in the future. The thing that surprises me about the Times article, is that the Wikipedia logo is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation. I know I won't be able to afford its usage on my book, and so I wonder if the Times has licensed it or if there is some journalistic fair use. I don't think there is even a public policy yet, only this draft: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_and_trademark_policy _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
