Re: [Templates] TT2 quick reference card

> Harry Jackson wrote:

Mark Mills wrote:

> Harry Jackson wrote:
>
>> * Darren
>> > Maybe you could use the other badger picture, the one that Andy wanted
>> > originally, instead of the O'Reilly trademarked one?
>>
>> I mailed Andy ( off list by mistake ) an offer of a badger image that 
>> I have been using as a logo. You could use any badger image you want 
>> but you would still be infringing their copy right. I remember 
>> reading something similar to this about the "Nutshell" names, ie 
>> Oreilly own the copyright on them to the degree that its OK to write 
>> a book like the "Universe in a nutshell" but you would be gambling by 
>> sticking the name on a computer book.
>
>
> 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.
>

Some of the associations that they claim as trademarks seem a little far reaching to me -- the case of "the image of a GNU and the topic of GNU Emacs" springs to mind.  Is RMS and the FSF in breach of O'Reilly's trademarks?

Andrew

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