[UbuntuWomen] Ubuntu, women and artwork...

[Micah Cowan]

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Vid Ayer wrote:
> On 5/5/07, t u <towsonu2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are you proposing that Canonical should go after the "creators" /
> 
> I cant say (or decide) who should go after whom ?
> The point remains : If tasteless pictures of women are being used with
> Ubuntu logo's prominently splashed across, it looks official. If
> people can get away with such things with some help from the TM
> policy, its time the Ubuntu community re-looked at policies it adopts,
> which de facto allows women to be portrayed negatively.

Well, now, this is an important distinction.

If it does look official, and could be misconstrued as official, then it
would fall outside of parody, and be fair game for trademark suits.

It does not, to me, appear anything like official, though, particularly
in the context in which it was found, and I think you'd have a hard case
to show that it was, which is why I've been arguing that Canonical's
hands are tied in this matter.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/
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