On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Andrew Flegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
I think so. Enough to discard it. I can't see that logo without seeing Barcelona'92. Note that the logo above was the reference one, then there were derived pictograms for all the sports and what not: http://olympic-museum.de/pictograms/Picto1992.htm The chances of having the same association made by users and the media are relatively high. If we have found more than one in this small and you list imagine in the WWW once people start blogging about it. Note that this has nothing to do with how good the logo is and if th author was conscious of not about the association. > 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 > > -- > Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.bleb.org/ > _______________________________________________ > maemo-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community > -- Quim Gil /// http://flors.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
