Liam Wyatt, 13/10/2010 23:43: > From what I hear (I'm here at the Europeana conference now where they are > officially launching the PDM tomorrow - as per the press release > http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/23755 ) CC were debating > whether to use a logo that was "C-with-a-line-through-it" or the letters > "PD". The concern about the former was that it could potentially look like > an "anti-copyright" logo which is not the message that CC wants to send out. > But, they ended up choosing it largely because Wikimedia has already made > the image recognisable through templates like "PD-old" > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-old-75 So, we were involved in > the creation of this Mark even though we didn't know it :-)
Looks like this is where the icon was created: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:PD-icon.png&diff=202666&oldid=189202 «"PD" may be insulting to french readers» (cf. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/PD#French )... Nemo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
