On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 04:13:41PM +0200, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: > >Are either of the above logos "confusingly similar" to our own? If not, > >trademark law does not give us any recourse in asking them to stop using > >the logos, and there is nothing wrong with them registering their own > >trademark. The real problem is that this is a violation of copyright. > >Debian-legal can't help resolve these situations -- either the original > >logo designer, or SPI (assuming the copyright has been transferred or > >SPI chooses to fund the lawyers) needs to get involved here to ask them > >to stop using these logos. Only the copyright holder or an authorized > >representative has the legal authority to demand that they stop > >infringing the copyright. > Thanks for your explanation. > As far as I understand, there is nothing wrong with the use of this logo > since it does not confuse with Debian. > The only thing is that the designer had his work 'stolen' and he is the > only person who can react, or SPI if the copyright has been transferred. Correct. > Could anybody contact them? http://www.spi-inc.org/contact lists various contact addresses for SPI. I'm not sure which address is the best to send to. > Now let me tell you about some direct use of the debian logo (also > mentionned on the -user-swedish list): > http://www.taliban-news.com/topics.php > The use of the debian logo on this site may be a real problem if we > consider the content of the site. > Maybe you already know about this one ? In this case, sorry again for > the noise. Yes, this particular use of the Debian logo is particularly troubling. Though perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that a site affiliating itself with a government that consistently violated human rights also steals copyrighted material. ;) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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