There's nothing wrong with our logo, but I wouldn't mind having more 
logos :)  Graphics are fun!  We can always use more!  I would object to 
abandoning our existing logo simply because Creative Commons came in and 
hijacked it, though.  We've been using it for years, and CC just started 
using it a few days ago.  Surely if one of us must change, it should be 
them.

I'm not convinced that anyone needs to change anything, though.

It's certainly worth noting that FreeCulture.org supports freedoms 
beyond simply remixing.  The "bricks" logo was inspired by Lawrence 
Lessig's "refrain" from his original "free culture" presentation 
<http://lessig.org/freeculture/>:

* Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
* The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
* Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
* Ours is less and less a free society.

Surely the freedom to "build upon the past" also includes the right to 
distribute what you've built!  And surely remixing and distributing 
aren't an exhaustive list of things that we support, including sleeping 
on the work, etc.

It would also be nice if Creative Commons acknowledged where they got 
the "bricks" logo from.  I don't think there's really any other place 
that particular arrangement of bricks could have come from, they clearly 
borrowed from us, and it would be nice if they mentioned their source or 
"attributed" us.

Aside from clarifying our wider focus, and CC attributing us, however, I 
think that things are fine as they are.

When FreeCulture.org was just starting, and we purchased the 
freeculture.org domain, Lessig had not yet published his book "Free 
Culture".  When we heard about the book, we were worried that he would 
be angry with us for grabbing both "freeculture.org" and 
"freeculture.net" ("freeculture.com" was already owned by a domain 
squatter).  Would this interfere with his book website?  When we wrote 
to him apologizing for grabbing these domains for the term that he 
coined, he wrote back that there was nothing to worry about, that he 
wasn't angry at all.  He said that we could take this as an opportunity 
to show that "trademark confusion" isn't as easy as the lawyers make it 
out to be, that we could use the same name in our different spaces 
without confusing anyone.  He said that he'd link to us on his book 
website if we'd link to him, and so we did.  We got many of our early 
recruits from people who visited <http://free-culture.org> and clicked 
on the link on his front page.

I think that we should treat Creative Commons's "borrowing" of our logo 
in the same way that Lessig treated our borrowing of his term "free 
culture".  I see no reason why friends can't use the same imagery to 
represent slightly different things, so long as we help spread the word 
about one another.

Peace,
~Nelson Pavlosky~
Co-founder, FreeCulture.org
http://nelson.freeculture.org

Fred Benenson wrote:
> Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing that -- then we solve the problem 
> and get a new look.
>
> Anyone up for the task?
>
> F
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> On 2/26/07, *Janet Hawtin * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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>     perhaps a FC logo which doesnt use lego(tm) might be a good idea
>     anyway?
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