discuss: license issues
Subject:
Re: license issues
From:
Mary Gardiner ####@####.####
Date:
28 Apr 2004 07:08:45 -0000
Message-Id: <20040428070838.GB16802@titus.home.puzzling.org>
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting doug jensen ####@####.####
>
> > "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."
>
> Preceded by:
>
> Except for the limited purpose of indicating to the public that the
> Work is licensed under the CCPL,....
>
> We seem to be somehow failing to communicate. I don't know why, but
> I'm inclined to give up.
I've assumed throughout this discussion that what Doug is thinking is
that:
1. The term "Creative Commons" is a trademark.
2. Authors of documents under CC licences may therefore only use the
two words "Creative Commons" in the context of licencing their document
(as opposed to, for example, writing a CC licenced document that uses
the two words "Creative Commons" in the context of writing nasty things
about CC).
I don't know trademark law well enough to know under what circumstances
using a trademarked term or phrase constitutes abuse of a licence to use
that trademark.
-Mary
