F.B.I. Challenges Wikipedia Over Use of Its Seal

In an exchange of letters, the Wikimedia Foundation, parent of the online encyclopedia, defended its use of the seal in its article about the agency.

The Intellectual property gangsters are brainless.

Hooray for the Wikipedia!

Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, called the dust-up both “silly” and “troubling”; Wikipedia has a First Amendment right to display the seal, she said.

“Really,” she added, “I have to believe the F.B.I. has better things to do than this.”