Op 3-jul-2006, om 11:20 heeft Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich het volgende
geschreven:
On 7/3/06, Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich wrote:
My question is: can I freely modify and redistribute the Ubuntu Logo
as the ubuntu-artwork license says?
As Corey pointed out, there are two *different* law's that govern
this.
One is copyright law. That is what talks about the art as "art", and
determines ownership and the right to modify it etc.
The other is trademark law. This covers this specific work,
because it is a
registered trademark in many (most) jurisdictions.
In doing stuff with the Ubuntu logo specifically you need to make
sure you
meet the obligations under BOTH sets of law. In the case of
copyright law,
the work is under a Creative Commons licence. In the case of
trademark law,
you need a trademark licence from Canonical. We issue those all
the time,
which is why Corey was suggesting you mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "your
name, contact
details, and a short explanation of your proposed usage of the
trademarks."
Of course, the trademark stuff does not apply to artwork that is
not in
fact trademarked. Only the Ubuntu name and logo (and relevant *buntu
equivalents) fall into that category.
Aha. Thanks for the detailed explanation. The fuss was about whether
or not I could include it into Wikimedia Commons, which only accepts
free content.
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That wouldn't be possible, since all information on the Commons are
licensed in a way that would allow others to take it and use it for
commercial purposes. The CC license may cover this, but not the
trademark license as Canonical couldn't possibly issue a license for
every possible entity that might take data from the Commons. Unless
I'm totally wrong about this...
Michiel
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