On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote: > This is ridiculous. We have this discussion every so often, when we are not > arguing over FlightPro Sim. Do we have to change every airliner model in the > inventory? Of course we don't. Use the bloody thing. And if ever anyone > complains say: "Whoops! Sorry.", and take it down, as we would for any other > copyright infringement. We ways end up with this solution. > > Simples.
I think we would be safer not having real life airliner liveries. I recall that MSFS 2002 (or was it 2004?) used fictional liveries, presumably to avoid this entire issue. I don't know what FS-X does. In the case of airliner liveries there is a history of them being used in flight simulators. IANAL, but AFAIK the fact that they have been used for a number of years without any enforcement from the trademark owner can be considered precedent in court that the owner is not that fussed about the use and makes enforcement more difficult in the future. I just had a quick look on avsim.com to see if add-on aircraft are being sold with real life liveries, and they are. I'd be interested to find out what licensing they have, if any. Nevertheless, if I was a commercial FS aircraft developer or commercial FG distributor, I'd be quite nervous about including trademarked liveries. As Martin points out Red Bull is very careful about their trademark licensing - I guess it's because they are very much a brand who sponsors a whole load of liveried products, teams etc. on the back of a rather sweet caffeinated drink (IMO it's a bit like Buckfast without the alcohol ;) ) As I said above, I think asking for permission is the right approach here, and I'd be interested in the response. -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
