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Wikipedia Logo

Does anyone know what the English
law restrictions are on using a logo?

I am making a video which, inter alia,
mentions a whole bunch of web-based
applications, and I'm including logos
of the companies I mention.

I seem to remember that Wikipedia was
a bit touchy about people using their logo,
but fair use seems to allow it if you are
talking about the logo's owner.

An up to date opinion on this
would be useful.

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Re: Wikipedia Logo

On 02/11/2007, Stephen Streater <sbstreater <at> mac.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know what the English
> law restrictions are on using a logo?
>

Legally you can't use it without the copyright holder's permission (in
this case the wikimedia foundation) unless your actions are in line
with the fair dealing provisions of UK copyright law. You could just
ask the foundation for permission.

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Re: Wikipedia Logo

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Re: Wikipedia Logo

Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the
foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo and
it will be mostly granted unless you're trying to make a huge business
out of it and/or make something that could be confounded with
Wikipedia (e.g. another encyclopedia)

Yours,
Michael

On 11/2/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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> In English law it is called "fair dealing".
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikipedia-logo.png
> for the copyright template.
> I seem to recall the Foundation allows the logo to be used in for example
> press reporting about Wikipedia and so on.
> See also
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Visual_identity_guidelines
>
> I am not a lawyer :)
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> On 02/11/2007, Stephen Streater <sbstreater <at> mac.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know what the English
> > law restrictions are on using a logo?
> >
> > I am making a video which, inter alia,
> > mentions a whole bunch of web-based
> > applications, and I'm including logos
> > of the companies I mention.
> >
> > I seem to remember that Wikipedia was
> > a bit touchy about people using their logo,
> > but fair use seems to allow it if you are
> > talking about the logo's owner.
> >
> > An up to date opinion on this
> > would be useful.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Gary Kirk
>
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Re: Wikipedia Logo

On Fri, November 2, 2007 20:59, Michael Bimmler wrote:
> Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the
> foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo and...

Actually, Wikimedia UK can give permission if it is an acceptable purpose.
Write me ...

alison.wheeler <at> wikimedia.org.uk

Alison

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Re: Wikipedia Logo

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 20:47 +0000, Stephen Streater wrote:
> Does anyone know what the English
> law restrictions are on using a logo?
> 
> I am making a video which, inter alia,
> mentions a whole bunch of web-based
> applications, and I'm including logos
> of the companies I mention.
> 
> I seem to remember that Wikipedia was
> a bit touchy about people using their logo,
> but fair use seems to allow it if you are
> talking about the logo's owner.
> 
> An up to date opinion on this
> would be useful.
> 

(IANAL)

It would really depends on how you're using it, as logo is copyrighted
& / trademarked, so would fall under the laws regarding "fair dealing"
just like text etc.

Some links that might help (or might not):
http://copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/uk_law_summary
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/ukpga_19880048_en_3#pt1-ch3-pb2-l1g30
http://copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p09_fair_use
http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/protect/logo_copyright

KTC

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Re: Wikipedia Logo

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 21:05 +0000, Alison Wheeler wrote:
> On Fri, November 2, 2007 20:59, Michael Bimmler wrote:
> > Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the
> > foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo and...
> 
> Actually, Wikimedia UK can give permission if it is an acceptable purpose.
> Write me ...

From my reading of the email, Wikimedia (Wikipedia) was an example
rather than the question :

"I am making a video which, inter alia,
mentions a whole bunch of web-based
applications, and I'm including logos
of the companies I mention."

KTC

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Re: Wikipedia Logo

Hi!

My company writes an application accessible
through a web browser, so I would like to put
this is context of other modern applications
accessed the same way, by listing some.

The ones I am planning to mention are:
Yahoo!, Google, Ebay, Amazon, myspace,
Wikipedia, facebook and YouTube.

I'll write to you and see what you think.

Stephen

On 2 Nov 2007, at 21:05, Alison Wheeler wrote:

> On Fri, November 2, 2007 20:59, Michael Bimmler wrote:
>> Actually, from my experience, it is mostly enough to write the
>> foundation a little e-mail asking for permission to use the logo  
>> and...
>
> Actually, Wikimedia UK can give permission if it is an acceptable  
> purpose.
> Write me ...
>
> alison.wheeler <at> wikimedia.org.uk
>
> Alison
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Re: Wikipedia Logo

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