onsdag 17 December 2008 skrev Jean-Michel Pour?: > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 11:23 +0100, Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote: > > However, I still think that Cinephiliacs icon is sufficiently > > different from > > the other icons to work in a menu with them, and I truly do not think > > that > > Apple will ever sue the Kdenlive Community for using an icon that > > looks like > > FCP's or IMovie's. > > If you have a look at Apple FCP clapboard, it is very much the same: > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2160/2419138485_1832b1e6c1.jpg?v=0 > > FCP icon is a registered trademark. Trademarks include names and icons. > You cannot simply do it and this is a legal issue. >
[...] > > The word ressembling means in legal terms that a basic user (my mother) > could possibly (sometimes) be mistaken and run Kdenlive instead of FCP. > > I am very sorry for that. I think your assement of the situation is wrong. I am not prepared to make an issue out of it, however. Regards Mads P.S. I was unable to find anything but textual trademarks for Final Cut at http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm - if you have a reference to the trademark registering for the Final Cut Pro Logo/Icon I would be happy to get it. -- Mads Bondo Dydensborg mads at dydensborg.dk http://www.madsdydensborg.dk/ The US population is 4 % of the global one. They produce 23 % of the global pollution.
