On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 07:09:46AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > case in point -- a few years ago, i mentioned to a red hat > employee that i was designing a course called "red hat system > administration", that i was going to offer to some of my current > clients who were interested. > his response was to *immediately* tell me that that would > be a violation of red hat's trademark -- to have the name > "red hat" in the title of the course. i'm not sure i see > how else i could name the course -- if it's designed to teach > people specifically how to administer a red hat system, what > *else* could i call it? Using the name in a descriptive sense is *CLEARLY* allowed by fair use. (IANAL, blah blah blah.) You can definitely name a course that as long as you don't attempt to represent yourself as Red Hat or the course as being official. In fact, I think it's very arguable that the "you can't resell the product without changing the name" rule is not one with a lot of legal teeth. However, legal teeth should not be sole the measure of whether guidelines like these are followed. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
