On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > I agree with Jon on this - ideally we should be pro-active about > asking for permission, even if we don't like the answer. > > We could send out a series of emails to all the trademark holders we > can identify, starting with the airlines as the most obvious case of > us using trademarks. I would be happy to draft a standard text > describing FG and our use of trademarks, so it would be a case of a > simple cut-and-paste and not much effort on our part. Obviously as > soon as we do that we are increasing our visibility, and would really > need to be prepared to respond and remove content if they said "no". > > I understand that is not really going to be acceptable to the "better > to ask forgiveness than permission" side of the argument, so I'm just > putting it out there as an option. No need to shoot it down. > I don't have any problem with being proactive about it. What I do have a problem with is all the hand-wringing going on in the absense of any factual information. If someone wants to take the time to sift through all the textures and then chase down the various trademark holders for official releases, I think that's great. However, there's no sense in gutting the database while cowering in a corner until that point.
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