Thanks Yann! We will take care of those files. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Yann Forget <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Just a note: we can update the license on Commons, but I noticed that > the files were copied locally on https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > Someone with the right priviledges will have to do it there. > > Regards, > > Yann > > 2014-10-30 17:30 GMT+01:00 Yana Welinder <[email protected]>: > > Still traveling, but let me see if I can briefly dispel some of the > > confusion. > > > > CC BY-SA 3.0 grants users the right to use an image under copyright law. > It > > does not cover trademark rights. The goal of trademark rights is to > protect > > the logo from being used in a way that confuses the public. Trademark > > protection only covers certain types of uses, which are not the same as > use > > covered with a copyright license like CC BY-SA 3.0. The Wikimedia > trademark > > policy provides how the logos can be used as trademarks and here is some > > discussion about why it does that: > > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy-purpose#trademark-purpose > > . > > > > So are the logos "free" under the Free Culture Definition? Yes, because > the > > definition only talks about freedom under copyright law and lists CC > BY-SA > > 3.0 as a "free license." The definition does not mean that users have > > freedom to violate other types of rights. > > > > Hope this clarifies! > > > > Yana > > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Allan J. Aguilar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA512 > >> > >> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:15:17 -0500 > >> Yana Welinder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > To address Allan's question, this does not affect the trademark > >> > status of the logos as governed by the new trademark policy: > >> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy. > >> > > >> > >> Thank you, Yana. > >> > >> However, as someone who understand little about copyright and > >> trademarks, for me it is difficult to understand how can a logo be used > >> commercially and not at the same time, and how can a logo be edited in > >> any but at the same time it only can be published according to specific > >> visual guidelines. > >> > >> Are the logos Free Cultural Works (as defined by Erik Möller on > >> http://freedomdefined.org) or not? > >> - -- > >> Allan J. 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