cohesion wrote:
Do people honestly think that you have to get permission from the subject of a book before you write about it? What weird intellectual-property brainwashing must have gone on there.
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Trademark means other people can't start an encyclopedia and call it Wikipedia, or use the logo to imply the foundation supports something they don't etc. It doesn't mean you need permission from the foundation to utter the phrase, or write it down. This is a good thing. Freedom of speech, expression etc.
I'm a little frightened by some of the views in this thread... Seems like people, given a tiny pretense of ownership of IP will immediately take on the most extreme views. We aren't the foundation, and trademark law does not allow people to stop a open discourse about a topic. Thank goodness.
Indeed. Copyright law is bad enough, but it would be worse to live under a copyright law the way some people around here describe it.
Ec