On 5 August 2010 22:23, Brian McNeil <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 14:07 +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> On 5 August 2010 10:18, Stephen Tilley <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Do we know if the BBC asked for permission to use another organisation's >> > logo in this way? >> >> I don't see why they would need to. There is certainly no trademark >> violation, since the way it was used couldn't confuse anyone into >> thinking the BBC was associated with Wikipedia, and think the fair use >> exemption to copyright would apply (they are essentially providing >> commentary on the logo). > > This is not the United States of America. It is *fair dealing*, not fair > use.
Indeed. I'm in the habit of speaking American so as not to confuse their little minds! ;) I need to break that habit when emailing the UK list... _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
