What the hell? US government logos and such are supposed to be public domain. I remember this, because a few years ago I attended a summer class thing at DigiPen, where I made a vectory arcade-looking game, and it had the "WINNERS DON'T USE DRUGS" logo on it, just for fun.
It's not like anyone is mistaking Wikipedia for the FBI or something... just another example of our government at work :P
EDIT: OSHI-! Giant Bomb is hosting an FBI logo...!
These days, it's all about bitching. Be it a completely rational and understandable complaint, to downright ridiculous and unneeded such as the FBI taking issue with its logo on Wikipedia.
Whoa, is that poor person talking to me? Bitch. Hey, that person has a car that is two years younger than mine. Bitch. Why did you place your foot in my lawn for two seconds, only to step back onto the sidewalk? Bitch. 10 years ago, video games were around $40 to $50; now they're 60! Waaaa. BITCH.
"This led me to thinking: if GB's database gets really large enough, and some lawyer at a big game publisher got bored at their day job... "
Something similar has already happened to GB. Back in 2008 Formula 1 requested that Giant Bomb remove the F1 logo's from the site, and as a result, the F1 franchise page has no F1 logo.
" Isn't this fair use or something? I'm not sure you can blame Wikipedia for what others are doing. (As I said, I'm not sure.) "
I think "Fair Use" doesn't account for a "fully-resizable vector logo where you can make pixel-perfect copies of it at any size". I'm guessing that's the same reason why most of the music wiki entries have small low-quality album art (just enough for representation) instead of the ones you can extract off iTunes songs or download from Amazon.
"This led me to thinking: if GB's database gets really large enough, and some lawyer at a big game publisher got bored at their day job... "
Something similar has already happened to GB. Back in 2008 Formula 1 requested that Giant Bomb remove the F1 logo's from the site, and as a result, the F1 franchise page has no F1 logo. "
How in the fuck are people suppposed to protect themselves from overzealous supertroopers with laws to prevent the public sharing of images of police nonsense? Granted, the biker is a douche too, and was being out of line, but the charges are outrageous!
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