[Foundation-l] Requests to use the foundations' trademarks/logos.

Fri Jul 14 12:25:19 UTC 2006

It is important to keep the community informed about this. By making
it clear on the talk page that the article is being reproduced by LoC
the article may be kept to higher standards. I'm guessing the
community were not informed about Pope/Tsunami? Anyway, it's good
news.

On 14/07/06, Jack <jackdt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I remember a similar request from 2004 during the Tsunami (okay, the
> > actual request should have been from january-february 2005) from the
> > US LOC for a collection about this.  Maybe someone is able to find the
> > ticket and how we reacted to this. As far as I am concerned, their
> > request is fine and I consider it a shame that libraries are requested
> > to ask for this to preserve the cultural heritage, no matter if it is
> > on dead trees or on a DVD.
>
> I found a ticket where Jimmy forwarded the request for
> <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pablo_II> to OTRS (ticket 119314),
> but the ticket doesn't include the permission. According to the email,
> Jimmy  gave permission for <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope> on
> 2005-04-13 by email (not thru OTRS).
>
> This request <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict> was also
> forwarded by Jimmy to OTRS.
>
> > As far as I'm aware the board needs to explicitely approve any use of
> > their logos. Last time it was asked for on IRC, Angela directed the
> > user to drop a line to board at wikimedia.org, so it might be sensible to
> > forward that to there.
> > -- Sean Whitton
>
> I've forwarded it there, thanks. That was my first thought, but Jimbo
> forwarded it to OTRS, so I tried juriwiki-l (no response yet) before
> asking here.
> --
> Jeandré
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