Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich wrote at 11:10 (EDT) on Friday: > Ok. That's not my area of expertise. For what it's worth, all I'm > saying is when I compare it to Adobe PDF logo, I don't see how this > KDE PDF icon is using any of Adobe's actual trademarks in any way.
The question in trademark issues is usually one of "consumer confusion": does someone believe, when they see that icon, that you're making reference to Adobe products? Adobe's graphic trademarks appear to be very similar to the KDE icon and the alternative-GNOME one that Dan showed -- enough so that our analysis was that Adobe might claim it was trademark infringement. Will Adobe do so? Do we expect Adobe to send a C&D letter to Evergreen and Conservancy? The answer to both those is 'no'. Therefore, if the Evergreen project feels they get a substantial benefit in some way from using either icon, they should do so, and we'll talk further about the risk. But, if there's not substantial benefit there, then I don't see a reason not to change one that has no chance of trademark infringement. Also, be careful not to conflate trademark and copyright infringement here. You can infringe trademarks without infringing copyright, and vice-versa. Or, you can also infringe both at once. -- Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy _______________________________________________ OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list [email protected] http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation
