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

Sat Jul 15 05:01:10 UTC 2006

Hoi,
Can I understand that this permission for using our content can be seen as a
precedent for similar organisations like the Library of Congress..
organisations like the Koninklijke Bibliotheek .. ?? (
http://www.kb.nl/index-en.html )
Thanks,
    GerardM

On 7/15/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you to the several of you who contacted me offlist about this.
>
> Danny, mindspillage, gmaxwell, and I met in DC with the Library of
> Congress
> folks who are responsible for the digital harvesting and web archival
> functions.  LoC is a big place, and the folks we met with coordinate a lot
> of different elements.
>
> One of the folks pulled out a folder which included a sheaf of the emails
> that end up in OTRS.  She passed one over to me and was explaining how the
> curatorial folks are interested in including a specific page or set of
> pages
> as part of a discrete topic, etc. and before she was done speaking I had
> written at the bottom in large letters in a blue pen, "BLANKET PERMISSION
> GRANTED" s/BP and all that.
>
> That there would be a moment's hesitation to cooperate fully with the
> Library of Congress is beyond my comprehension.  I only regretted that we
> hadn't had an opportunity to meet with them earlier.
>
> Working with LoC will likely be a two-way street.  They have 40 TB (that's
> terabytes - 10 million items) of digital collection which is of great
> interest to us.  They also are interested in the full archival approach,
> given what the projects have become as part of the American internet
> phenomenon.  How that will be accomplished is still being discussed and
> will
> involve several different elements within LoC.
>
> Part of the reason I took this job was to be able to sit across the table
> from other organizations and do something for the betterment of the
> projects.  Largely, such ideas of working together has been stifled by a
> simple lack of time and bandwidth from board members and Jimmy.  I'm glad
> that we are moving in this direction.
>
> Oh, and we're going to get the whole digital archive of the US Holocaust
> Memorial Museum too.  =)  Thanks to Danny Wool.
> --
> Brad Patrick
> General Counsel & Interim Executive Director
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> bradp.wmf at gmail.com
> 727-231-0101
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