Also, remember, outside of the US, most - especially smaller - companies don't have legal teams on retainer...
EdB On Thursday, December 19, 2013, Kessler CTR Mark J wrote: > It's not intentionally violated copyright and trademark. The person has > submitted it to us with the understanding we are clear to use it. That's > the good faith part... we are trusting them in what they are telling us is > correct. There is no way to confirm everything we receive. > > -Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 11:33 AM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: Flex Showcase legal aspects > > IMO, it is not a good idea to violate copyright and trademark law and wait > to see if you get caught, even if the remedy is simple. > > If you are a famous celebrity and happen to buy a particular brand of > clothing and someone sees you wearing it in public, folks can probably > tweet and Facebook that they saw you wearing it, but the company that > makes the clothing probably can't put that on their site without your > permission. > > I will start a thread on legal-discuss. > > If you want to read more, here is a links. Imagine that the TV company is > Apache and we are the ones wanting to use the TV company's name on our > site. > > -Alex >
