Phroziac wrote:
Zomgwtfbbq! Wikimedia on Wheels!
On 9/14/05, Alphax <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Fastfission wrote:
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>>Arf arf! No, no that kind of seal...
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>>There are a number of U.S. federal agencies which have seals the
>>usages of which are restricted by federal law. For example, about the
>>seal of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA):
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>>Use of the Central Intelligence Agency Seal
>>Federal law prohibits use of the words Central Intelligence Agency,
>>the initials CIA, the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency, or any
>>colorable imitation of such words, initials, or seal in connection
>>with any merchandise, impersonation, solicitation, or commercial
>>activity in a manner reasonably calculated to convey the impression
>>that such use is approved, endorsed, or authorized by the Central
>>Intelligence Agency.
>>http://www.cia.gov/cia/notices.html#seal
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>>Now I don't know what it's *copyright* status is -- is it a work of
>>the federal government and thus in the public domain, or is it
>>considered an exception? -- but it seems clear to me, anyway, that it
>>is not "free" in the sense required to be listed on Wikipedia Commons.
>>In the United States its usage is restricted fairly heavily, including
>>the "non-commercial" bugaboo. It looks to me like, in effect, this
>>would be a "copyrighted with permission but no commercial use" tag.
>>Which, as I understand it, is verboten.
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>So they will SUE US IN A COURT OF LAW IN TRENTON, NEW JERSEY? :)
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>It's only illegal to use their image if you impersonate them. The
>copyright of the image itself is that the image is in the public domain.
>Effectively, it's a Trademark (albeit one without copyright), the
>misrepresentation of which may render one liable to prosecution.
>
>And if they want to stop us, fsck them. We'll move the media servers to
>Paris or Amsterdam, on wheels if needs be.
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>--
>Alphax | /"\
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A sort of "Howl's Moving Encyclopedia"?
-- Neil