[Clipart] Inclusion of copyrighted logo in your library

[Jose Hevia]

20 Sep 2005 10:39:07 -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One <jonadab at bright.net>:
> Bryce Harrington <bryce at bryceharrington.org> writes:
> 
> > It's been stated as a policy that only materials which can be public
> > domain will be included.  Items that are trademarked or copyrighted,
> > such as logos like this one, cannot be included.
> 
> The problem is, submitters don't always tell us the truth about that,
> and we don't always know.  Perhaps the submitters don't always know,
> or they think they know and are misinformed.  Anyway, we get images
> that are marked as public domain but in fact are not.
> 

I had multiple times released logos as public domain. Reason is I
consider very useful to have a repository when I could get a vector
"tux" for giving a presentation (hey, inkscape had one in examples
directory from Sodipodi's days!!) or the blender icon for my desktop
as the blender foundation doesn't give you one.

I think this is not bad "per se", if the logo is copyrighted and
trademarked you have the right to fight abuses but there are uses in
which the use of a copyrighted logo is needed. How do you represent a
Windows or Mac partition without resembling trademarked icons?

Microsoft cant "patent" to draw four waved colored squares, or Aple
cant "patent" to draw a smile face, they are given the rights to
control what (commercial) uses these drawing are for.

My two cents...                                                    Jose Hevia