[WikiEN-l] Re: bit of tricky copyright question

Sun Jul 31 11:10:08 UTC 2005

Hello

The logo is copyrighted by the Foundation, which mean you need a formal 
authorisation for any use of your logo and it can not be considered a 
derivative work under the GFDL.

In this cas, the question would essentially be "what do you intend to do 
with the logo ?"

Anthere

PS : as for commons, it is correct the logo should not be there as it is 
not a free logo... still... all logos are available on commons afaik.
I promise the Foundation will not sue Commons admins for letting the 
logos there :-)

Jtkiefer a écrit:
> I have a bit of a tricky copyright question. Recently I decided that I 
> would like to create a derivation of the Wikipedia logo for personal use 
> soley on the Wikipedia site, after seeing that it was copyrighted to the 
> Wikipedia foundation I emailed Jimbo asking for formal permission to use 
> the image as a part of the future work. I have not recieved any reply 
> and so I decided to continue assuming that since there are already other 
> works based off the Wikipedia logo on the site it would be ok and I 
> could deal with tagging later..  I have since uploaded the work and amd 
> wondering whether it is a copyright violation or not and if not what it 
> should be tagged since it doesn't seem to fall under any of the 
> licensing schemes.  BTW, the image can be found at 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Darkwiki.jpg.
> 
> 
> I've also been meaning to ask how the copyright on the Wikipedia logo 
> works since it seems to be a paradox of terms, especially since it has 
> been established that despite claims otherwise, see [[User:Pioneer-12]] 
> everything posted or uploaded to Wikipedia is automatically licensed 
> under the GFDL yet the logo appears to be exempt.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jtkiefer