On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:44:23AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > I spotted the following problem in part of the text which isn't actually part > of the license: > > "Except for the limited purpose of indicating to the public that the Work is > licensed under the CCPL, neither party will use the trademark "Creative > Commons" or any related trademark or logo of Creative Commons without the > prior written consent of Creative Commons." > > Too broad. This denies legitimate, otherwise-legal uses of the trademarks, > such as for commentary and criticism (uses which will not cause confusion > about the trademark to the public).
Trademarks can't restrict that sort of thing anyway. They don't grant broad control over the use of the subject, like copyright does. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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