Logo licenses (was Re: [Actionchix] Final versions of robotux arehere!)

[lawgon at thenilgiris.com]

> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006, Dancer Vesperman wrote:
>> That's not hard to do even while retaining copyright. Assign copyright
>> to any legal entity that can hold it, and let people ask. Permission is
>> easily granted.
>
> There's no question about retaining copyright here: while some people
> have voluntarily surrendered their logos into the public domain I don't
> intend to require it. Licencing perhaps, although most people seem to
> think that an Open or Free licence is not restrictive enough to protect
> our name and image.
>
> So, which legal entities can hold it? Kenneth asserts that "LinuxChix"
> cannot. I'd prefer it not be a single person, as individual people burn
> out,
> disappear, get busy, get bored, or have something unfortunate happen to
> them and vanish from projects on a regular basis.

it would be inadvisable to keep passing copyright around like giving admin
passwords to more than one person. The only alternative is that linuxchix
becomes a legal entity - not for profit corporation, society, whatever.
And licensing doesnt solve the problem of who is to hold the  copyright
since a license granted without consideration is revocable at any time at
the whim of the license holder

btw,although i dont specialise in IP, i am a lawyer
>
> -Mary
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