On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I should admit that I don't know anything about such copyright law, > > however I think that as long it is just a drawing without any > > copyrighted logo, it's not a problem. > > A quick look over these pictures suggests no *copyright* problems. > They look like independent creations of some artist, not derived from > the works of Duracell, Bic, or whoever first drew a yellow smiley face. Nice to hear that.
> There may be trademark problems. For example, Duracell may have a > consider the orange-and-black battery to be trade dress; my > understanding of trademark law is quite limited, but I don't think it > applies to pictures of the trade dress in a different form. Ok, further investigation should be done on that. > I wouldn't be horribly surprised if the names "hummer" or "rubik" are > trademarks of the companies using them. I'm not sure what action to > take based on that surmise, though. For hummer, it's seems easy to change the name, something like 4WD car can go there. For Rubik it is a little more difficult to find another work, and I am almost sure this word is used somewhere in Debian. Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net
