[Commons-l] Trademarks

Tue Sep 13 19:31:24 UTC 2005

Remove all flags? That would be a pain in the arse, to put it mildly...

On 9/13/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> The core goal of Commons is maximal reuse.  Commercial logos are
> frequently under _both_ trademark _and_ copyright.
> 
> Felipe Micaroni Lalli wrote:
> >     Short version: Trademarks are very different from copyright. They are
> >     more like "other laws which restrict the free use" of (any) content and
> >     Commons does already allow seals, flags, coats of arms, Olympic symbols,
> >     the Red Cross and Crescent (all of which are protected quite like
> >     "commercial" trademarks) as well as Nazi symbols (the use of which is
> >     extremly restricted in some legislations such as DE, AT, HU).
> 
> I would recommend removing all of those.
> 
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