On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Allan J. Aguilar <ral...@vmail.me> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:15:17 -0500 > Yana Welinder <ywelin...@wikimedia.org> 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? I don't think Erik was completely thinking about trademarks when he wrote that but I would say no, essentially nothing covered by a trademark would completely meet that definition. (and there would be major issues in my mind with not covering our major logos by trademark) Even the Creative Commons logos doesn't (for that matter I don't think the CC Logo is even under a CC License, at least not a by-sa one). James [not speaking for Legal/WMF etc] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
