FBI Gets Litigious With Wikipedia

[Silver Patriot]

I almost want them to lose so they would have to put up a picture saying:

"Image removed by the F.B.I."

And you want them to follow through while they have REAL crime to stop? It's like buying a donut to play Frisbee. You are missing the point!

God, it was a joke. It would have been funny to see on the FBI wiki page.

 

[The Wooster]

Why not simply upload a lower resolution version of the image? I understand their aprehension of having a giant, high quality scan of their logo on one of the most popular sites on the web.

That way Wikipedia gets to say they dealt with the man and the FBI doesn't have to send Mulder and Skully to bust their asses.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

because it facilitates both deliberate and unwitting violations of restrictions by Wikipedia users."

As opposed to deliberate and unwitting violations of restrictions by every DVD owner who can screencap that bigass FBI logo they force us to sit through? (That is an FBI logo, right? I never actually LOOK at it.)

It is.

 

[AdmiralMemo]

The FBI would probably shit themselves if they did a google search of "FBI Logo"...

So, of course, the problem isn't Wikipedia... it's Google! Google is evil! I've been telling everyone this! The FBI should sue Google!

[/sarcasm]

 

[SilentHunter7]

Aren't images released by the U.S. government automatically released into the public domain?

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Really? How silly can the FBI be? I thought they were quite serious folks.

Haven't they got better things to do?

Apparently not, since they solved all of America's crimes last week my guess is they are looking for something to do. Atleast the CIA, NSA and DEA have inter-agency softball tournaments to keep them from boredom.

 

[HavoK 09]

QUICK REMOVE THE PIC FROM THIS THREAD OR WE ARE NEXT!!!

dont they have better things to do? like protecting their own contry instead of threatning a web site for something everyone can get these days

 

[gbemery]

I thought that the law usually states that anything you put up on the internet is in the public domain. If the FBI didn't want anyone to use the logo then legally they shouldn't have put it up on the internet.

 

[AngelBlackChaos]

The fact is, it isn't particularly hard to find a picture, even if wikipedia had taken it down. In several resolutions in fact. If i wanted it for the basis of fraud or impersonating an FBI agent, without Wiki, it wouldn't be too hard.

Besides, if they are soooo upset about it, they could always ask for them to put on of those fake watermarks on the image, saying. "For Educational Uses Only."

 

[Miumaru]

Should just do what that religious nut did when Wikipedia put him down. Make their own completly biased and wrong wiki site...then make it all classified.

 

[Grigori361]

It'd be funny if someone added this ordeal to the FBI wiki page.

I say someone with the time who can be arsed to makes an online petition to keep it protest said treat AND add this to the wikipedia page

I'd sign it.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

While the FBI is moaning about this "breach," why don't they spend more tax dollars to create a new FBI logo and not tell anyone what it is so it can't be put on wikipedia or the internet in general. That would be the smart thing to do! [/sarcasm]

 

[Fearzone]

I use the seal of the state of California on a web page I run, and sometimes I wonder what the copyright restrictions might be on that. The law may be one thing, morally though I sleep well at night. Since my tax dollars go to support the state, I feel that gives me the privilege to use its logo as part of a free informational resource that I provide.

By the way, mighty nice seal you have posted there. =)

 

[manaman]

The point was the users misusing it.

And if a person wants to misuse it, they'll misuse it. It's not like you can make said logo not exist or track every single use of it. The logo on their "about the seal" page is tiny, admittedly, but it could still be misused. It just seems odd to declare that something you distribute yourself shouldn't ever be distributed.

I never said it was a valid point, I was just correcting the vast number of people that misunderstood why the FBI asked Wikipedia to take down the seal.

 

[mrpenguinismyhomeboy]

Isn't it obvious?

There's a secret message,a-a-a code, perhaps, hidden inside the seal! It all makes sense now!

No wonder they don't want it readily available to the public!

CALL DAN BROWN IMMEDIATELY!

 

[shannon.archer]

Lol silly americans

 

[Misterian]

This could get ugly.

 

[Ldude893]

[HEADING=2]This User is Awaiting Suspension for the Illegal Use of the FBI Logo[/HEADING]​

 

[ender214]

I'd find it funny if the FBI proposed legal action against this thread for displaying the FBI logo.

EDIT: No, I did not realize that the post above me was going to be an FBI logo...