On 10/02/07, David Monniaux
<David.Monniaux(a)free.fr> wrote:
Andrew Gray a écrit :
Bear in mind that copyright is not related to
your right not to have
your image used in a defamatory or misleading manner - whatever rights
the law gives you in this regard you retain whether you hold the
copyright or not.
Actually, it is.
Proof: the Wikimedia Foundation *copyrights* its logos under *unfree
licenses* exactly for that reason: for being able to control their use
more effectively than through trademark law solely.
Sorry, by "your image" here I meant "the photograph of
you" (ie, the
image in question). Images which aren't a photographic representation
of a person don't tend to be covered by these protections, hence the
workarounds...
Though even there it's not clear that the workarounds are necessary or
beneficial. Sun recently freely licensed the copyright on their Java
mascot ("Duke"), and is controlling use exclusively through the
trademark that they retain on it. Mozilla, meanwhile, has been famously
tightfisted with their Firefox logo, and it has led to a great deal of
rancor within the open-source/free-software community, arguably
outweighing any benefit they've gained from that control.
-Mark