FBI doesn't like Wikipedia using its logo
"In a letter sent to Wikipedia's San Francisco office, the FBI said that "unauthorised reproduction of the FBI Seal was prohibited by US law"
More specifically, they don't want this posted where someone can grab off and make, say fake IDs with it.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US-FBI-Seal.svg
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...
The logo is on the official FBI website. A google search of FBI seal brings up 228,000 results. Waste of time and energy.
" I am undercover. "Haha, first thing that popped into my head when I read that was this priceless quote from IRC:
http://bash.org/?88575
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...!
Also, while you guys are here, reading this, the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" concept page could use a bit of work in the games department.
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.)
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.
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." 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.) "
" @overbyte said:The question I think we all have is "Why?""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. "
This is way more disturbing to me:
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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