[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia Class Action

Matt Brown morven at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 23:55:42 UTC 2005


On 12/13/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> 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 individual behind this is in Greece, not the US.  How does this
change things?  I'm not sure what Greek law has to say about Fair Use.

>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.

Not worth suing; besides, all the better to make him look foolish.

-Matt



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