proposal for a creative commons character

2004-06-15 Thread Michael Tiemann
The Creative Commons (http://www.creativecommons.org) is devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share. While technically they use copyright to do so, the creative commons has this neat symbol that looks just like a copyright (00A9) except that it

Re: proposal for a creative commons character

2004-06-15 Thread jcowan
Michael Tiemann scripsit: Without getting greedy, I'd like to propose the adoption of the (cc) symbol in whatever way would be most expedient (so that creative commons authors can identify their work more appropriately), and leave for later the question of the other symbols. It's a logo. We

Re: proposal for a creative commons character

2004-06-15 Thread Michael Tiemann
I'm new to this, so I'm not sure the best way to move forward, but let me try two ways: 1. The Euro symbol is a logo of the new European currency. 2. The (cc) symbol is not trademarked, so there is not the kind of IP issue as their would be around usual logos. 3. If there were a cc character

Re: proposal for a creative commons character

2004-06-15 Thread John Hudson
The Creative Commons (http://www.creativecommons.org) is devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share. While technically they use copyright to do so, the creative commons has this neat symbol that looks just like a copyright (00A9) except that it

Re: proposal for a creative commons character

2004-06-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Jun 15, 2004, at 2:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Tiemann scripsit: Without getting greedy, I'd like to propose the adoption of the (cc) symbol in whatever way would be most expedient (so that creative commons authors can identify their work more appropriately), and leave for later

Re: proposal for a creative commons character

2004-06-15 Thread Chris Jacobs
- Original Message - From: Michael Tiemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:49 PM Subject: Re: proposal for a creative commons character I'm new to this, so I'm not sure the best way to move forward, but let me try two

Re: proposal for a creative commons character

2004-06-15 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2004.06.15, 21:49, Michael Tiemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there were a cc character that could be enclosed by an enclosing circle character, then the symbol could be composed from Unicode characters. Try U+33C4 U+20DD, might work... :-) --

Re: proposal for a creative commons character

2004-06-15 Thread John Hudson
1. The Euro symbol is a logo of the new European currency. Yes, but it is not _just_ a logo. It is a logo which found its way into plain text. It is quite usual for a plain text to use the euro logo instead of the EUR currency abbreviation. I wouldn't even use the term 'logo' for the euro