On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:16:16PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > Almost none of these images appear to actually be affected by whomever > William claims to own the copyright, unless they are actually > derivative works of something that is copyrighted.[1] > > However, it's quite possible that they are representations of > trademarks, and as such protected wherever such a company has > trademarks. [I don't deign to know who actually controlls these > trademarks, or even if they are really trademarked.] > > Yet, even if that's the case, I don't see that there's a point to > removing these works until we get cease and desist letters from the > people who own the trademark. If that happens, the maintainer(s) of > this package will have to act quickly to remove the works in question, > even if they are in stable... but I'll be really surprised if they > ever actually care. > > Just for the record, I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. > > > Don Armstrong > > 1: I think the phone image is about the closest one to being a > derivative work of a copyrighted work... but if I'll believe it if the > artist says that it just drawn based on an idea of what a cell phone > looks like.
Considering all of that, I think the hummer files could be a problem as the filename states that the artist wanted to draw a hummer car. As "HUMMER" is a registered trademark of General Motors Corporation, it may be a problem. I think I'll change the names of the files in the next upload. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net
