On 07/09/06, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What about version 2: instead of applying to all
registered
trademarks, apply to all registered trademarked logos. This should
remove the ridiculous cases like you mentioned above (car body shapes,
landscape, device designs etc). But still includes Pringles boxes &
German logos.
I think it's the wrong place to apply a policy.
If the usage is the problematic thing, we can't protect people from
using something in a way that contradicts local law, any more than we
can stop them from reusing a GFDL image in print without reprinting
the entire GFDL next to it. A licence template does not constitute
legal advice either, and we can't guarantee something marked with a
particular licence is in fact under that licence - do we remove all
images the Foundation doesn't have signed paper on? (i.e., operate at
the level of assurance the FSF operates at.)
Ultimately we can only be people's mothers to a certain extent.
Commons was conceived as a service project for the Wikipedias, then
people started treating it as an area to make a personal name for
themselves on as if it were a wholly separate entity; if the second
group of people make it useless for the first purpose, then we would
have to duplicate the service project aspect. Which strikes me as
ridiculous.
- d.