----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Tiemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:49 PM Subject: Re: proposal for a "creative commons" character
> I'm new to this, so I'm not sure the best way to move forward, but let > me try two ways: > > 1. The Euro symbol is a logo of the new European currency. Yes, but it is not _just_ a logo. It is a logo which found its way into plain text. It is quite usual for a plain text to use the euro logo instead of the EUR currency abbreviation. > 2. The (cc) symbol is not trademarked, so there is not the kind of IP > issue as their would be around "usual" logos. > > 3. If there were a "cc" character that could be enclosed by an > enclosing circle character, then the symbol could be composed from > Unicode characters. Thus, there would be no logo per se, but a means to > construct what we want to make a symbol, by usage and acclaim, not a > logo. But this would be less elegant than a single (cc) character > because, as the enclosing characters page says, YMMV when using these > enclosing symbols. > > Is that a start Just a start, but to get it encoded you need more. Examples of using the cc logo in plaintext _might_ help.
