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Re: Logo trademark license vs. copyright license



On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:54:47 +0200 Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:

> Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > Anyway, I have a question: does the latter ("may not [...] harm the
> > reputation of the trademark holder") prevent me from stating
> > 
> >   "Debian GNU/Linux sucks badly"
> 
> Good point. I would say no, as long as it is clear that "use"
> in the above sentence refers to a use covered by trademark.
[...]
> perhaps it's
> best to just drop that part.

How would the revised wording look like?

> 
> > possibly with the swirl (== Open Use Logo) associated to the
> > sentence?
> 
> As an aside, in my experience courts are more likely to forbid use
> of graphical marks than word marks in cases like this. You can't
> criticize a company without mentioning its name, but do you really
> need to show its logo? 

Maybe, for instance if I want to criticize the logo, as well...


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