[Foundation-l] Fair Use and Registered Trademarks
Jean-Baptiste Soufron
jbsoufron at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 10:18:05 UTC 2005
Le 16 juil. 05 à 01:24, Rowan Collins a écrit :
> More generally, though, trademarks are always so much more flexible
> than other forms of "intellectual property" that I really don't know
> what you could and couldn't do once Mickey Mouse was no longer
> *copyrighted*, but still considered a *trademark*. [Of course, unlike
> the Encyclopedia Britannica, you couldn't really use an image of
> Mickey Mouse with the trademark removed, since Mickey Mouse *is* the
> trademark]
Wrong... you could use a precise image of Mickey Mouse if this image
is PD !
Once again, trademarks are a commercial system applying to commercial
uses and unable to interfere with more legitimate rights.
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