Re: Re: Using Logos in Wikipedia Articles without pemission

From: John Levine <johnl[_at_]iecc.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:00:00 -0400


>Judge Kozinski's opinion in New Kids on the Block v. Gnat Satellite
>Information Network, 971 F2d 302 (1992), makes it clear that fair use in
>a situation where defendant is using plaintiff's trademark ....

That's irrelevant here. The mark in question is only copyrighted, not trademarked. Since a church does not in general engage in commerce, it's hard to see how they could ever trademark their logo other than for ancillary uses on coffee mugs and the like.

R's,
John Received on Mon Oct 02 2006 - 19:00:00 GMT

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