> Funny enough, I also liked Samantha's first one - but I had the
> impression I'd seem it before somewhere...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics
I think that the resemblance is too close... Of course, I'm not
accusing plagarism by any means. I just think that we need to choose
something that's stark in its uniqueness.
Tim
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----- Original Message -----
Subject: maemo-community Digest, Vol 22, Issue 28
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Date: 07/28/2008 1:19 pm
Message: 2
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:20:37 +0100
From: "Andrew Flegg"
Subject: Re: RFC - logo submissions
To: "List for community development"
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Andrew Flegg wrote:
>> #samantha - crayon person[1]:
>> fun and professional, energetic, agile, human.
>
>> [1]
http://wiki.maemo.org/Image:Maemo.org_logo_contest_samantha_1.png
>
> Funny enough, I also liked Samantha's first one - but I had the
> impression I'd seem it before somewhere...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics
Hmm, good spot.
> Is this close enough that we should be worried?
Now I've seen the Olympics one, I don't know. They're certainly very
similar in their design concepts, although we aren't saying that
samantha copied it - the styles are different and its a fairly
archetypal image.
There are two questions:
1) Are people going to associate the logo with the Olympics more
than
maemo.org? (obviously, given maemo.org is fairly small scale, the
absolute
answer is "yes"; but I mean in the subset of people who know about
Maemo)
2) Are there trademark concerns?
I can't answer (2), and I /didn't/ associate it with the Olympics...
until now. Something for the judges to weigh up, perhaps, rather
than
explicitly banning it. If samantha mounted a spirited defence here,
I
could wholly back it... and that could feed into the judges'
decision
making.
Cheers,
Andrew
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