On 3/15/06, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And when a lawyer comes to me and says "this silly mockup on a website is > an improper use of our logo," I'm going to point them to this little law > called "fair use". Specifically, to the "parody" clause. Protected > speech under the US constitution, dontchaknow. what is being parodied here? I look at that and I see a parody of shadowman... not a parody of "fedora." I mention it, because there are established limits on how protected mark A can be used in a composition parodying protect mark B. If he had made a parody of the fedora mark in the same style as his free-handed shadowman i think your lawyers wouldn't even have batted an eye. As it stands, they might rapidly blink for a few seconds like they are staring into the sun when they see that image. A not completely unrelated situation occured between penny-arcade, a site that does nothing but parody as a genre, and american greetings the owner of the strawberry shortcake marks. A non-lawyer's thoughts on the matter can be found at http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/002368.html -jef"Does the argument I made about the limitation on parody hold up? Who cares.. I got to make a contextual link to the censored penny-arcade comic... which is the real goal of every conversation I get into"spaleta -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
