You cannot crop a minor trademark element, eg. logo, incidentally located within a "free" photographic image and upload it to Commons as a free use instance of that trademark / logo.
BRUENTRUP On 12/13/14, JP Béland <[email protected]> wrote: > We're talking strictly about copyright here. If not "trademark" that are > too simple to be copyrightable would be considered but they are not. The > reason the logo would become unacceptable on Commons is based on copyright. > > 2014-12-13 4:27 GMT-07:00 Marco Chiesa <[email protected]>: >> >> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:07 PM, JP Béland <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Russavia wrote "To crop the >> > logo out to appear as it does in your linked to image, it would be a >> > copyvio. " Doesn't the free license we use is supposed to allow (and >> > even >> > force) any modifications of an image to be free also? >> > >> >> Not necessarily. Basically, you cannot release rights you don't have. A >> simple example: let's say you have a free photo of politician A, and a >> free >> photo of porn star B (in some explicit pose). If you crop the head of A >> and >> paste on the body of B, it will probably considered illegal in quite a >> large number of countries. In this case, it's still free copyright-wise... >> >> Cruccone >> >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
