Ancestors

Written by Roy Tanck on 2024-10-26 at 22:10

There are a considerable number of images in the #WordPress Photo Directory that contain the WordPress logo.

Like all photos in the directory, these are listed as "completely free to use for anything". But considering all the talk about WP trademarks, I wonder whether that's actually true.

What if, just as a random example, WP Engine chose to use one?

https://wordpress.org/photos/?s=WordPress

[#]WPPhotos

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Toot

Written by Otto on 2024-10-26 at 22:49

@roytanck Copyright and trademark law are two entirely different things. If you take a photo of somebody's logo, then the copyright on that photo is yours, however, that doesn't eliminate trademark law on the usage of that photo.

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Descendants

Written by Roy Tanck on 2024-10-27 at 06:17

@otto42 I assumed that that's why the Photo Directory team rejects images that prominently feature brands and logos. To avoid trademark issues. We've been making an exception for the WP logo, and I'm not sure we should.

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Written by Otto on 2024-10-27 at 19:00

@roytanck If the photo is primarily of the trademark, then those are avoided in general. This should apply to the WordPress trademark as well, however, if the use of the trademark is only incidental, like it's in a photo at a wordcamp, then not so much. Also, a lot of photos get taken at wordcamps and submitted then and that's primarily for people to learn to submit to the photo directory and things like that.

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