Logos and websites - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Oct 2006

Hello guys,

thanks alot for your answers. Unfortunately, I hadn't time yet to read the articles
but I'll sure do that as soon as it's the case.
To answer the question where I'm situated; I live in Germany. Lawers around here try
to find possibilities to gain money by pointing out websites
in wwhich law stuff my be broken in any way. It's absolutely rediculous and I
don't want to have to pay a thousand euro jsut because a picture had 
been used without getting a permission for example.

But from what you've been pointing out, it seems that it's not a problem to use
some logos in the given context.
And the context after all is purely educational / historical. So I guess that it
shouldn't be a problem.
I dont think that there will be issues the my ISP. 

Nethertheless, is it necessary to ad something like "Alll logos are trademarks of
their owners bla bla..." ?

Anyway, my site will be up soonish, I'll post a comment as soon as it's the case,
as I'd like to get your opinions about it.

Thanks,
Pierre

...
  Chuck Guzis wrote:
  On 10/10/2006 at 6:37 PM Jim Leonard wrote:

  Yes, but he's not using the marks for any
sort of financial gain or 
 libel, so again, he should be fine.  
 In fact, trademark fair-use guidelines are much more liberal and
 straightforward than those of copyrighted material.  "Fair use' in
 copyright is a mare's nest situated in a minefield.  
 Surely it's all academic given that we don't know where the original poster 
 lives (they didn't say) - won't the copyright law vary wildly from country to 
 country? I suspect that the law which applies is the law in the site owner's 
 home country, which we don't know.

 *generally* I'd say that putting up a bunch of logos for non-profit use should 
 be fine - it's not like it's doing the company any harm, or releasing 
 information into the wild which isn't already readily visible elsewhere. About 
 the worst I'd expect is a polite letter once in a blue moon along the lines 
 of: "our logo has changed; please take the old one down and replace it with 
 the new one".

 As I said though, I'm sure each country's laws differ, and given the global 
 nature of the 'net the ones which apply are probably those for the site 
 owner's home country (or possibly the country in which their site's ISP is 
 based, if different)

 cheers

 Jules

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