Re: [Templates] TT2 quick reference card

> Don't mix copyright with trademark there. Since they trademarked the

Mark Mills wrote:
> Don't mix copyright with trademark there. Since they trademarked the 
> conflation of Badger and TT2 you can get in to trouble if you do the 
> same to promote your own, published, TT2 work. Technically, the Badger 
> artwork itself probably isn't even copyrighted since they tend to draw 
> from pre-1923 woodcut artworks for their source images. Saves them money 
> and gives them a trademarkable image at the same time. And the same 
> thing with "in a nutshell", to an extent it is a  regularly used yet 
> rather weak trademark they employ on many of their products.

As you can probably tell I am not really that well versed on this stuff.

> Patent: non-obvious and new invention listed with government.
> Copyright: newly created work of art (listed with government for extra 
> protection).
> Trademark: image or logo regularly used in conjunction with product 
> (listed with gov for extra protection).
> Service mark: image or logo advertised when offering a service (listed 
> with gov for extra protection).
> 
> Patents and copyrights are time-limited (technically, anyway) in term 
> but grant exclusive license for that term.
> Trademarks and service marks are forever but have to be defended and 
> used regularly or are lost.
> 
> O'Reilly has to be tough about defending their trademarks or they will 
> lose them. See the "Camel FAQ" at their site: 
> http://perl.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/usage/faq.html
> 
> Sorry, it's a hot button with me.

Don't be sorry, its a lesson learnt on my part.

Harry

_______________________________________________
templates mailing list
templates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates