[Clipart] incoming logos

[Jon Phillips]

Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Yes, agreed.  The logos cannot be accepted as public domain and should
> be removed.
> 
> Also, regarding the earlier question about copyright of potraced photos,
> I've talked with a couple people here at osdl and they were pretty
> certain that the traced version would be a derivative and thus prevented
> by copyright rules.  Thus, any image that appears to be an autotraced
> version of a photo would need to indicate the copyright status of the
> photo it was obtained from.
> 
> Bryce
> 
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:15:51PM -0800, Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
>>Have you all seen the new logos beings submitted? I don't think there is 
>>any way we can accept trademarked and copyrighted logos into our 
>>repository. There are ones like playboy symbol, LINUX, etc. Also, I've 
>>noticed that we have some other logos in there such as the firefox one, etc.
>>
>>We can't claim these as PD, as they are others copyrighted material. Do you 
>>all agree? I think we need to strip them out before we get slapped with a 
>>Cease and Desist.
>>

But if the images are Public Domain, then the copyright is clear on them. 
Thus, I sought out images which are PD and those are okay to make 
derivatives from, right?

Jon


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