On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:38:34PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I dare you to package the golden arches as clipart. > Or Mr. Peanut.
What good would that accomplish? [I'm hoping you can give me a meaningful answer.] Also, is there some reason to represent a "Mr. Peanut" instead of just a regular peanut? Are we trying to sell those products or something? These are real questions -- some sorts of uses are appropriate for a trademark, and some require that the trademark holder either protest strongly, in a legal sense or lose control over them. The details of this sort of thing depend on the trademark. In other words, if $X is a problem with trademark $a, $X could be completely legal with trademark $b. As an aside, if you want to get some company's logo, usually a google image search of the form `company name logo` will get you a copy. Of course, there are still copyright issues, but if you're just going for a general idea of what "typical use" is for a specific trademark, google is a good place to start. [But note that this is just a start -- this will only find you pages which have that particular text associated with the image. For example, you'll find ten times as many image hits searching for `square compass` than with `freemasons logo`... not that all of those hits are relevant.] Anyways, if you want to see something packaged which hasn't been, it's usually a good idea to package it yourself. If you want to assert that some use of some trademark is illegal please present a coherent (and accurate) explanation of what sort of problem that use causes for the trademark holder. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]