Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Video of the FSUK talk from the 19th February

[MJ Ray]

Andy Halsall <address@hidden> wrote: [...]
> In short, afaik trademarks are not like copyright, you can use them as long 
> as 
> you are not using them in a way that is prohibited.  Using a mark when 
> referring to a product or service that is provided by an organisation is 
> generally seen as OK.

Note that if it was just a trademark, then that would be true, but
that particular trademark policy has been included (as a bug IMO) into
the 2.0/uk copyright licences, so this particular one isn't limited by
the limits of an ordinary trademark.  Using copyright licences to
protect trademark-like things is full of difficulties and rapidly
becomes an unacceptable surrender of freedom IMO.

[...]
> Again, I'm not legally trained or qualified in any way, but I do have the 
> probably false belief that in the UK at least, the law and how it is enforced 
> does rely in someway on common sense.

Debian Developer Ian Jackson's recent posts to cam.transport (or it
might have been uk.rec.cycling) might dispel that belief for some.

Regards,
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