Re: [Foundation-l] Status of logo copyright

Imran Ghory <imran-1QrBkHT6hxtn/[email protected]> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:21:54 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.legal
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On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Angela_ wrote:

> David, it's great to hear you are happy to do this. As far as I know,
> the only copyrights assigned to the Foundation so far are those of
> Jimbo and certain edits by Bomis staff. The Foundation doesn't
> currently have any policies on the handling of its copyrights. I don't
> know how binding making an informal assignment on the mailing list
> would be; perhaps a lawyer could advise whether you need to physically
> sign something.

The FSF have a standard copyright assignment contract they get
contributors to GNU projects to sign, I'm sure if we asked them they'd let us use a
modified version of their contract.

Imran
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