David Gerard wrote: > 2009/8/14 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected]>: > > >> Sigh. Of course you know, Bob, the MediaWiki flower isn't >> a trademark or anything remotely of the sort "owned" or >> even claimed in other than authorship fashion by anyone. >> > > > You're probably wrong there, actually -
I am virtually sure I am not wrong in fact. > even if the MediaWiki flower > isn't a registered trademark, it could probably be quite well defended > by use as a trademark. Perhaps, if it weren't for the inconvenient - for your theory - fact that the author (Florence Devouard) explicitly freed the image into the public domain, so as to be utilizable everywhere where mediawiki is used, regardless of licensing scheme. > Slippery thing, law. > It may be slippery, but trying to claim trademark protection for a PD image, is even beyond the unctuousness of the legal profession. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
