[WikiEN-l] Re: Images on user pages

Thu Sep 15 07:43:13 UTC 2005

Michael Snow wrote:
> Alphax wrote:
> 
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> 
>> The only one which has serious copyright concerns is the
>> Wikipedia/Firefox "logo", which infringes two trademarks (and some
>> people are claiming is a "parody"). If someone will draw their own
>> version of this, please do so and put it on commons, it's quite cute...
>>  
>>
> It may be cute, but as I understand it such images aren't eligible for
> inclusion on Commons, nor do I get how you think that someone "draw[ing]
> their own version" will avoid the legal problems.
> 

Well, the Firefox and Wikipedia logos are both copyrighted and
trademarked. Recreating them from scratch would at least solve the first
issue.

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