Liam Wyatt, 13/10/2010 23:43:
From what I hear (I'm here at the Europeana conference now where they are officially launching the PDM tomorrow - as per the press release http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/23755 ) CC were debating whether to use a logo that was "C-with-a-line-through-it" or the letters "PD". The concern about the former was that it could potentially look like an "anti-copyright" logo which is not the message that CC wants to send out. But, they ended up choosing it largely because Wikimedia has already made the image recognisable through templates like "PD-old" http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-old-75 So, we were involved in the creation of this Mark even though we didn't know it :-)
Looks like this is where the icon was created: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:PD-icon.png&diff=202...
«"PD" may be insulting to french readers» (cf. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/PD#French )...
Nemo