[wp-forums] User profile uses the WP logo

[Mark Ratledge]

Ah, you're right; it is a gravatar. Brain freeze on my end. And a trademark, too, not a copyright.

Seems like I remember in the past, a mod emailed owners of such gravatars. But I won't report this one at gravatar; doesn't seem worth it.

--songdogtech

On Jul 9, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Otto wrote:

> a) "Trademark", not "Copyright".
> 
> b) I cannot speak for Automattic so I don't know if this is the right
> approach or not, but:
> 
> If you view the URL for somebody's gravatar image, like so:
> https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2a116ddb1dbb4bd63dd24b8e84e69257
> 
> And then use that big identifier with just gravatar.com, like so:
> https://gravatar.com/2a116ddb1dbb4bd63dd24b8e84e69257
> 
> That should redirect to their gravatar profile. There's a tiny little
> "report abuse" link below that left hand sidebar. Seems to me that that
> would be the place to report "impersonation", although I'm a bit iffy on
> whether this sort of usage implies "impersonation" as such.
> 
> -Otto
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:42 PM, James Huff <james at automattic.com> wrote:
> 
>> It was when I was still heavily active 2 years ago, but I can’t remember
>> exactly how we dealt with it. It is a Gravatar, after all.
>> 
>> ________
>> James Huff
>> http://macmanx.com
>> http://automattic.com
>> 
>> On July 9, 2014 at 4:13:39 PM, Mark Ratledge (mark at markratledge.com)
>> wrote:
>> 
>> This user's profile has the WP logo as avatar. Wasn't this decided in the
>> past to be a copyright no-no?
>> https://wordpress.org/support/profile/kidsguide
>> 
>> --songdogtech
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