[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia Class Action

Tue Dec 13 14:55:06 UTC 2005

On 12/13/05, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Anthony DiPierro" <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote
> in message
> news:71cd4dd90512121025r42088e35m38bd4a9e3b045629 at mail.gmail.com...
> > > http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/
> > It'll be interesting to see if someone tries to force them to remove
> > the trademarked Wikipedia logo from that site.
>
> According to the footer on that page:
> "Wikipedia image, in its distorted format (c) Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is
> used pursuant the fair use doctrine"
>
> IANAL but that sounds pretty demented to me :-)
> --
> Phil
> [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]

Well, yeah, in my opinion it's a pretty obvious case of fair use as
far as the copyright goes.  Doesn't Wikipedia have a tag for "logo of
a company on a page about the company".  The case for dilution is
trickier, but still probably fair use (if it's even dilution in the
first place).  I think it'd be a horrible mistake to sue them over it,
but hey, it'd be an interesting thing to watch.

Anthony