Paul L. Snyder on 25 Aug 2008 08:22:54 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] PLUG Logo! And LinkedIn


On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Art Alexion wrote:

> Worse yet, that corporation could register a copyright for the art and sue 
> PLUG for using it.

This conflates copyright and trademark law.  I'm not an expert on
either, so I won't hold forth.  I'll just observe that Lyz has indicated
that the image creator (and thus automatic copyright holder) has made
it available under a Creative Commons license, which should effectively
end this line of discussion.

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Paul
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