[Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] Upload Flagged

[Ryan]

But how can the image be truly "Public Domain" then if you can use every
part of the image, bar the trademarked logo. The main purpose of making all
the cliparts PD is that people can take any part of an image and use it
wherever they want. Someone may take the memorystick logo and use it for
something else, not realizing it is a TM and get themselves into hot water.

However, I don't think that Sony has a TM on the shape of the MS like apple
has on the ipod, so we may be able just to remove the logo and have a great
piccie of a stick of flash memory in the collection...

Cheers,

ryanlerch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Owens [mailto:doctormo at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 8:39 AM
> To: Ryan
> Cc: Jon Phillips; ryanlerch at gmail.com; fwd2clipartlist at rejon.org
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] Upload Flagged
> 
> Trademarks don't work like that, your not releasing the trademark into
> public domain only an image of it, it's what's known as using the logo
> to represent the product of the trademark and most of the time doesn't
> even need permission. but to play it safe you can ask them all they
> have to do is say no and you can air on the side of caution and remove
> the image.
> 
> I'll repeat the important part: Trademarks don't work like that, the
> protection would still be there for sony.
> 
> On 26/04/07, Ryan <ryan at lennox.com.au> wrote:
> > I think im 100% sure sony would not allow their logo for Memorystick be
> > released into the public domain, ever.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > ryanlerch
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Martin Owens [mailto:doctormo at gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 8:32 AM
> > > To: Jon Phillips
> > > Cc: ryanlerch at gmail.com; fwd2clipartlist at rejon.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] Upload Flagged
> > >
> > > Make sure to tell the artists that if they ask for authorisation then
> > > you could include it since it's a logo on a product shape and form
> > > which is tied to it. bit hard to just remove it without even asking
> > > sony.
> > >
> > > On 26/04/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > > > Yah, this is a trademarked image IMO...so, we can't include it. Def.
> > > > can't include with the Sony M memorstick logotype...ban+delete IMO
> > > >
> > > > Jon
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 15:17 -0700, ryanlerch at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > > Content has been flagged
> > > > > Upload: MemoryStick
> > > > > URL: http://openclipart.org/media/files/flomar/3488
> > > > > IP: 203.34.177.6
> > > > > Flagger: ryanlerch
> > > > > -------------------------------------
> > > > > the logo makes this a PD issue... would it work without the logo?
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