Hi, I've got a little more info, which may be useful in allaying some of the concerns cited previously in this thread. Although there are currently _serious_ issues in trademark protection globally, the reason it came up in this particular case was because the company would be publishing the item on the Adobe website.
From what I've been able to put together so far today it's not so much a general issue, or "new adobe overlords" issue, so much as it was the company website appearing to endorse a third-party use of a trademark... that seems to be what started that little conversation rolling. Aral wrote: > If this is Adobe's new policy, I hope that there will be some guidelines > posted to make their position public so we can all remove the word > "Flash" from our various community sites and open source projects. I want to minimize ambiguity too. Best resource I know now is the list of registered trademarks and their guidelines for use: http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html (Something that makes this all more complicated is that there are formal and informal levels of communication... a press release would be held to different standards than would a Fark contest, for instance. It's hard to give hard and fast rules, but such general guidelines do give a little bit of slack to handle different situations.) I'll be collecting concerns from this thread and others and forwarding them internally, though, so that everyone involved knows all the sensitivities. Sound like a plan...? Claus wrote: > By the way, dear Adobe, quite a while back you promised on this list > to clarify your general position regarding some Flash related open > source projects. Any news? I haven't got any more on that subject this morning, but I'll be sure to point other staffers here too, as part of the whole issue of removing ambiguity about corporate legalisms in general. (I get the sense that it's tough to craft general guidelines without risk of these being taken advantage of later; that's the context I've pulled together on why such resources haven't been available already.) tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
