File talk:Microsoft Sign on German campus.jpg
 | This file was nominated for deletion on 21 July 2007 but was kept. If you are thinking about re-nominating it for deletion, please read that discussion first. |
Greetings. This image is a derivitive work under US law. While incidentally included copyrighted works do not create problems for us under US law, it is clear that the primary subject of this image is the copyright logo. (And yes, most logos including this one are copyrightable under US law). While the uploader of this image may be German, commons is still hosted in the US and must conform with US law. As a result I am nominating it for deletion. --Gmaxwell 04:05, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- If you want to enforce US law on the commons, then I suggest you start by removing the (very detailed) listing of internationally diverse differences in copyright laws from Commons:Licensing#freedom_of_panorama. And - besides - in which way you think this picture violates en:Fair_use. --85.178.124.194 11:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- If we're going to take a copyright encumbered image, the actual logo (perhaps in vector form) would be better. --Gmaxwell 18:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
This is the strange (but common) situation in which two copyright-laws interfere. In USA the "microsoft" writing is copyrighted, in european law it is not copyrighted at all, but trademarked. A "word" could never be copyrighted in EU. Tricky, isn't it? -- Stahlkocher 18:25, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- Note that this photo survived a deletion request and has been since used as example. Platonides 21:55, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
