Policy:Trademark policy/Summary

Wikimedia Foundation Trademark Policy Summary

May I use the Wikimedia marks?

This summary is not a legal document.

YES, please!

You have the right to use marks to:

· Truthfully describe a Wikimedia site;
· Accurately report news;
· Create artistic, literary, and political works; or
· Link to Wikimedia sites.

This policy also allows you to use marks:

1. On the Wikimedia sites.

2. Outside the Wikimedia sites when you:

· Organize a Wikimedia community-focused event;
· Do outreach and recruit new editors; or
· Place marks on t-shirts, cakes, and other things without selling them.

Please always comply with the Visual Identity Guidelines.

Get a regular license

· for events and conferences,
· publications, movies, and TV shows,
· for things that you want to sell, and
· other uses.

YES, but first...

please sign a Quick License

for Wikimedia photo contests, and GLAM.

Sorry, NO.

Not for linking to non-Wikimedia sites, or

creating mimicking websites, or

otherwise misleading others.