This issue came up with a vengence in 1999 when a certain Peter Tishma apparently persuaded American Airlines to grant him what he thought was an exclusive license for the use of all American Airlines owned logos on flight sim aircraft. You can read what happened next (very relevant to the current discussion) by searching Google for tishma american airlines.
The upshot is that aircraft bearing American Airlines logos and liveries continue to be available on the main freeware download sites to this day, and it can hardly be argued now that American Airlines are unaware of the issues. Mally ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FlightGear developers discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trademark violations could be a problem > Oliver C. wrote: > > >Maybe we should use a fictitious name because > >real names of companies etc. could be a trademark violation. > >So to be on the safe side we shouldn't use real names at all. > >This includes airline names on airplanes and company names on buildings in the > >fgfs scenery. > > > >What is your opionion about this issue? > >Did someone of you thought about that? > >What is the legal status, what is allowed and what is not allowed? > > > > > > I think this issue is way overblown. People have been modeling real > liveries and buildings in flight sims from day one. If we go down this > road, we will have copyright problems with Cessna for modeling a c172, > problems with Boeing for modeling a 747, copyright problems with Norway > for modeling Norway, copyright problems with God for modeling the > world? Maybe we should have all fictitious aircraft, all ficticious > terrain, ficticious planet radius, ficticious weather, fictitious > cities, but then that's no fun. I don't think we should spend too much > energy solving non-existant problems. If people want to create > ficticioius designs, that can be fun too. > > Curt. > > -- > Curtis Olson Intelligent Vehicles Lab FlightGear Project > Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.638 / Virus Database: 409 - Release Date: 22/03/04 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
