And to think that this whole time I thought FBI really did stand for Female Body Inspector. Boy, is my face red…
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has threatened Wikipedia with legal action if the online encyclopedia doesn’t remove the FBI’s seal from its site.
The seal is featured in an encyclopedia entry about the FBI.
Wikipedia isn’t backing down, however. The online encyclopedia — which is run by a nonprofit group and is edited by the public — sent a chiding letter to the FBI, explaining why, in its view, the FBI is off its legal rocker.
“In short, then, we are compelled as a matter of law and principle to deny your demand for removal of the FBI Seal from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons,” the Wikimedia Foundation’s general counsel, Mike Godwin, wrote in a letter to the FBI, which was posted online by the New York Times.
“We are in contact with outside counsel in this matter, and we are prepared to argue our view in court.”
The whimsically written letter from Wikipedia says the FBI’s reading of relevant law is both “idiosyncratic” and “more importantly, incorrect.” It also notes that the FBI’s seal appears on other websites, including in an online entry from Encyclopedia Britannica.
So, they’re worried about people using the lo-res image for duplication? No one better tell them about the vector versions available all over the damn place…but one would need to know how to search The Google for “FBI vector logo”.
P.S. This doesn’t mean the terrorists have won, does it?
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