[WikiEN-l] bit of tricky copyright question

Sun Jul 31 18:01:50 UTC 2005

Jtkiefer wrote:

> 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 think that "for personal use soley (sic!=solely?) on the Wikipedia 
site" is key here.  As long as the use remains on the Wikipedia site it 
can't possibly be a copyvio.

Ec