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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: 22 December 2008 08:45
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] not quite in the Backstage spirit?
I thought that the BBC had set up a system via the Press Office
for the distribution of BBC logos for this kind of use a few years ago?
I got a similar letter when I started UK Free TV, but it was
countermand by the "Media Library".
2008/12/21 Mr I Forrester <[email protected]>
That was certainly news for us at backstage. I'm going
to follow this up
and hopefully have some better news soon.
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 14:50 +0000, Martin Deutsch wrote:
> Just spotted this in the newest Private Eye (dated
26th Dec)...
>
>
> Andy Alcorn is a student whose hobby is computer
programming. Three
> years ago he designed a desktop "widget" for Apple
Macs which allowed
> users to tune in directly to the full range of BBC
radio stations and
> have them on in the background as they worked, rather
than having to
> search out individual web pages to do so.
>
> He estimates that the free software has been
downloaded at least
> 200,000 times. At the peak of its popularity, around
65,000 people
> were using it to listen to the BBC.
>
> In October he was contacted by the BBC, which had
tracked down his
> private mobile number and home address. Was it to
thank him for the
> extra listeners he had pushed in the corporation's
direction, or
> offering him a job on the technology staff? No.
Instead the "BBC
> Litigation Department" informed him that while "the
BBC does not
> object to the reference of the BBC services ... you do
not have the
> authority to use the BBC logo and as such the use of
it amounts to
> infringement of the BBC's registered trade marks and
of its
> copyright."
>
> Alcorn was ordered to remove the logo from the widget,
where it
> appeared in a little box enabling people to knoiw what
they were
> listening to, and "provide signed written undertakings
that you have
> undertaken this step and that you undertake not to
repeat your actions
> in the future" or face legal action.
>
> All BBC logos have now been replaced on the widget
with the letters B,
> B and C, and licence fee-payers can now sleep easier
in their beds.
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