Erik wrote > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Hofman [mailto:e...@ehofman.com] > Sent: 27 February 2011 09:09 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing > > On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 01:57 -0500, Chris O'Neill wrote: > > I'm no lawyer, and I'm certainly not up on the law around the world, but > > there's a concept in North American common law that one must take > > "reasonable and prudent" steps to avoid liability. With this concept in > > mind, I respectfully ask whether it is "reasonable and prudent" to > > explicitly take the position that we'll "look the other way" when a > > possible copyright infringements are occurring? Likewise, is the "if we > > don't ask permission they can't say no" position reasonable and prudent? > > To be honest I don't see any legal difference between creating an > accurate livery for a virtual aircraft or publishing a photograph of the > real aircraft. >
Yes!! At last some common sense. And if you publish a photograph or other artwork YOU own the copyright. We are not "using a trade mark". But if we ask a company to do so they bound to say no, or they run the risk of losing their rights to their trade mark. So we don't need to ask, nor should we. We are not "looking the other way", or infringing copyright etc. While we are on about it - FlightSim Pro, or whatever they call themselves this week, aren't breaking any laws either - they do comply with the terms of the license. It is a scam, yes, but caveat emptor ... Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
