On Tuesday 09 Nov 2010 10:57:39 David Nelson wrote: > Hi, :-) > > They can certainly copyright their particular version. However, IANAL, > but I don't think they can copyright the whole concept of a paper > plane in general. Anyway, La Poste? Those guys can hardly stagger out > of bed in the morning... I'd be surprised if there would be a > problem... Anyway, their logo is in fact a bird, not a plane... > > David Nelson
The point is not about copyright or trademark, it's about uniqueness.It wouldn't matter if they didn't have it trademarked, it would still be unusable. And you make good point why would we want a logo that is associated with: "Those guys can hardly stagger out of bed in the morning." When people see our logo it has to be unique enough to be only associated with LibreO People take the easy way out: A logo attracts a persons attention. Natural curiosity creates the question "Who does that represent?" Natural laziness chooses an easily justified reply "Paper plane, must be LaPoste." or whatever paperplane logo they're familiar with. The paper plane is cool, I like it better than the folded page, however that is just an aesthetic judgement, from a practical branding POV the paper loses under the uniqueness criteria. -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.org -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
