[WikiEN-l] Re: Images on user pages

Fri Sep 16 03:18:19 UTC 2005

IANAL, but wouldn't icons such as
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Nuvola_apps_licq.png be
trademarked still?

Laurascudder

On 9/15/05, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
> > Alphax wrote:
> >
> >>Well, the Firefox and Wikipedia logos are both copyrighted and
> >>trademarked. Recreating them from scratch would at least solve the first
> >>issue.
> >
> >
> > That's just wrong.  Recreating them from scratch would not solve the
> > first issue at all.
> >
> > That's like saying that if I type in all of a Harry Potter book from
> > scratch, it's no longer copyrighted.
> >
> 
> Argh, I meant in the same style, not the exact same thing... so if
> someone created an image of white globe with a chunk taken out of the
> top and letters all over it, and an orange stylised fox wrapped around
> it... would that be any better?
> 
> > Please, I ask people, don't speculate on legal matters unless and until
> > you've learned more about them.
> >
> 
> As an aside: I've replaced some of the images in question (at least on
> [[User:NSR/userboxes]] with icons from the Nuvola icon set for KDE
> (shameless plug: these are going on Commons, linked from
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nuvola), which are licensed under the
> LGPL, so if anyone wants to complain about the copyright or whatever on
> them, they can ask David Vignoni (the author) about them.
> 
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