[Foundation-l] Wiktionary logo competition makes b3ta

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/8/14 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>:
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>> Sigh. Of course you know, Bob, the MediaWiki flower isn't
>> a trademark or anything remotely of the sort "owned" or
>> even claimed in other than authorship fashion by anyone.
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> You're probably wrong there, actually - 

I am virtually sure I am not wrong in fact.

> even if the MediaWiki flower
> isn't a registered trademark, it could probably be quite well defended
> by use as a trademark. 
Perhaps, if it weren't for the inconvenient - for your theory -
fact that the author (Florence Devouard) explicitly freed the
image into the public domain, so as to be utilizable everywhere
where mediawiki is used, regardless of licensing scheme.

> Slippery thing, law.
>   
It may be slippery, but trying to claim trademark protection
for a PD image, is even beyond the unctuousness of the
legal profession.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen