On 06/09/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds plausible on the surface. But. * What about spurious trademark claims? Apple has been threatening everyone who uses the prefix "i-" or the suffix "-pod".
Well, images don't suffer the problems of text in that regard. Restrict it to demonstrated trademarks. Many things are obviously trademarked which don't need to be examined that closely. There are trademark offices, right? So we look them up. Or whoever's so keen to delete looks something up.
But basically stick to the idea of: is it intending to primarily show a trademark? If so, then this applies.
* Trademark law is far from uniform internationally. Which sets of
trademark laws do we decide to ignore?
Well it's just like copyright then :) The general principle of respecting the laws of the country of origin [of the thing, not the image creator] works well IMO.
* How many and which countries must it be trademarked in?
See above, potentially just one.
* How do we deal with claimed trademarks that are not registered trademarks?
Hm... I mostly intend this to apply to registered trademarks. So I don't know - status quo - they can stay?
cheers, Brianna