Chris wrote: ...<snip>... > > In my personal opinion, knowingly allowing the use of trademarks in > aircraft liveries without the permission of the trademark holder > *damages* this Project's integrity. However, if the consensus of the > core development team is that this kind of hair splitting is acceptable > I'll shut up because, after all, I'm just a lowly end-user who happens > to read this mailing list. Therefore, my personal legal and/or > financial risk is fairly minimal. >
I'm going to set you all a simple multiple choice test - pay attention because I'm only going to say this once: 1. I take a digital photograph of you. Who owns the copyright of the digital images produced? A. Me B. You 2. I take a digital photograph of you standing next to your car. Who owns the copyright of the digital images produced? A. Me B. You C. The motor manufacturer 3. A professional photographer stands in my place and takes a digital photograph of you standing next to your car. The images are almost indistinguishable from mine. Who owns the copyright of the digital images produced? A. The professional photographer B. Me C. You D. The motor manufacturer 5. I make a drawing on paper of you and your car from the same viewpoint. Who owns the copyright of the images produced? A. Me B. The professional photographer C. You D. The motor manufacturer 6. I make a drawing using Photoshop or similar of you and your car from the same viewpoint. Who owns the copyright of the images produced? A. Me B. The professional photographer C. You D. The motor manufacturer 7. Do I have to ask permission of the motor manufacturer, the professional photographer, or you to make or to publish my work on the internet? A. No B. Yes 8. I got there first. Does the professional photographer have to ask my permission, or the motor manufacturer or you to publish his work? A. No B. Yes Right. Hands up anyone who answered anything but straight As. Oh dear - in Germany apparently I must seek permission from the motor manufacturer. I expect BMW are very busy handling all the requests. That's probably why they can't fix mine ... but that's another saga. Bear in mind that almost all cars have their logo prominently displayed front and rear. Does that change your answers? Self-evidently the answer must be no. Otherwise, any image containing any object owned or manufactured by anyone in the last 50 years would breach someone's copyright or trademark. Professional photographers and artists could not exist. The art world, of which we "aircraft developers" form a small and esoteric part could not exist. Try telling that to http://www.airliners.net/ or http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/ Here's one I did earlier. Anyone want to sue me? http://img571.imageshack.us/f/lotus7.jpg/ Last question. Does Flightgear operate under different rules or laws? A. No B. Yes C. In Germany Anyone still confused? Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
