User talk:Djr xi/User Ferrari

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[edit] Ferrari logo

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Hi. I noticed you reverted my change Template:User Ferrari, implying that, because the image was a photograph, it was not a logo and so was not covered by Ferrari's intellectual property rights. However, this is not accurate. There is the absurd situation whereby a photograph of a company's logo, where that logo is the main subject of the photograph (such as a photo of a logo on top of a building) is in fact violating that company's intellectual property rights. It apparently has to do with the extent to which the logo is the subject of the photograph. If you have someone standing in the foreground of the photo, then it would probably not be seen as a derivative work. Similarly, if you have a photograph of the whole car, the logo would not be the main subject of the image. However, a close-cropped photo of the Ferrari logo on the front of the car is hardly borderline, and would be regarded as essentially the same as a non-photographic representation of their logo. For this reason, I have undone your reversion of the template. You are welcome to find a better free image to replace the one I put on there; I couldn't see half the images in the Ferrari article due to server problems at the time. - Mark 10:18, 4 January 2006 (UTC)