[Tango-artists] Copyrighting a logo with tango icons inculded

[Rodney Dawes]

In short "theoretically, yes."
In long "probably not."

My advice to you if you're thinking of creating any logo which is
intended to be Copyrighted/Trademarked for protection under law, is
to only draw original artwork, and make sure everything is good, by
hiring a lawyer to provide you legal advise.

In many countries, it is basically impossible to put anything into
the Public Domain, as there is no clear legal separation between
authorship and right to use/copy. The original author will pretty
much always retain Copyright.


On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 07:54 +0200, Niklas Park wrote:
> At http://tango.freedesktop.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions it is made
> clear that the icons are placed in the public domain. Older versions
> were under CC by-sa. 
> As long as your friend uses the newer versions, he should be able to
> do more or less whatever he pleases with the icons. 
> As to the copyright, I suppose you'r referring to  the derivative
> work. I hope he's not claiming copyright to the icons themselves. That
> would not be OK.
> 
> /Park
> 
> 2010/10/14 Collin Dahl <cgc002 at gmail.com>
>         Hi, I'm not entirely sure who to contact about this, but
>         hopefully the mailing list is the right place.
>         
>         Anyway, a friend of mine wants to copyright a logo for his
>         business with a couple icons from the tango base icon set
>         included on it. Is it possible for him to do that? I assume
>         that since they're public domain, we could, but I want to know
>         for sure.
>         
>         -- 
>         http://collin.co.nr