On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Heiko Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > >>> understand: The problem is >> really only the Red Bull logo, as they are >>> known to make problems. If other sims use this logo, >> then only because >>> Red Bull didn't discoverd it yet. Mostly all other >> logos using in this >> >> Citation please. > > Easy: Google "Red Bull Trademark" and you will find forums discussing this > topic. > Better: Google: "Red Bull Trademark sue" > "red bull sue" is a lot funnier.
Regardless, nothing relating to open source use of logos on aircraft models in flight simulator. Note that I actually found a picture of a real AH-1 Cobra (http://www.airplane-pictures.net/image49158.html) in Red Bull livery - this tells me that if Jack's AH-1 uses this same livery, there is likely no infringement at all. No more so than someone painting a picture of the Red Bull Cobra would be. > http://www.rclineforum.de/forum/thread.php?threadid=261953 Here the user > "Stefan" asked Red Bull for using their logo for a RC-model which he > does use only for his own and now got an answer (in german): > Awesome. Presented in a country in which I don't reside _and_ in a language I don't read or speak. If the model the person wanted to put the RB logo on is one not traditionally marked by them, then yeah, I can see they'd have a problem with it. However, if it's an accurate representation of something found here: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=1191&bih=700&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=red+bull+aircraft+collection&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq= I would suspect that RB a) would have no problem with and b) would have no reasonable legal remedy because the model would be an accurate scale representation of a real world object. This of course may be an incorrect assumption - I'm (obviously!) not a trademark attourney. Note that while hard to see from your high horse, you might want to look closely at every single aircraft in the library. See a "Boeing 747" in there? Sorry, that's a trademark violation! Get rid of it or rename it. Ohh, I see a Ryan Navion. That's a violation too. We'll have to call it "Plane, General Aviation, Monocoque Design, 1947". Oh darn, lookee there! It's a Piper Seneca II! That's gotta go! We'll call that one "Plane, General Aviation, Twin, Reciprocating Engine". Like Curt mentioned earlier, you'd better apply the same standard across the board or don't bother. I think your best bet is to create your own little private sanitized aircraft collection so you don't have to be horrified by the rest of us scoff-laws. After you're done taking chainsaw to the FlightGear repository, you really should head over to Avsim.com, flightsim.com, etc. and make sure there's no icky trademark infringement going on over there as well. I'm sure they'll appriciate you just as much as we do! g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
