On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Camille Moulin <camille.mou...@alterway.fr> wrote: > > CC-By could work, but it's less convenient. And also, it's supposed to be > just correct technical picutres of their products, so I'm not sure they > actually would be copyrightable: proposing them a CC-BY would suggest that > we actually consider them as copytightable (and I'm personnaly against > spreading this idea). CC-0 is more like "we don't think it's copyrightable, > but just in case".
IANAL, but I believe that even reference pictures of objects are generally considered copyrightable in the US (which is where the two companies are based). I'm not so familiar with the legal situation in other countries. Here's a brief blurb from Wikimedia that seems relevant: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Image_casebook#Utility_objects --R -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
