[Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

[Paul van Helden]

On 2010/02/09 10:06 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
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>> It is a real pity about Jack Wolfskin, but I'd still go for the paw and
>> refrain from making T-Shirts with it (or at least have the T-Shirts made
>> by someone who cannot be sued :-) ). A big cat's paw print is the
>> ultimate emblem of stealth and speed IMHO, since you never see the
>> bugger ;-)
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> I think in the case we really should change, something potentially
> encumbered is not an option.
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I guess it depends on how far you want to take this free-as-in-speech 
thing then? Personally I'd rather be defiant when such common sense 
personal liberties are attacked (such as not being able to use a paw 
print design, which imo cannot be registered as a trademark since it is 
not original art). These days it seems *everything* is /potentially/ 
encumbered, and Jack Wolfskin (who I've never heard of before) is proof 
of that. (The only difference is whether you know about it or not). I 
can understand that there will be trouble if a European company makes 
100,000 FPC T-shirts and sells them very publicly, but otherwise...? 
Anyhow, I'd get a Chinese company to do that. It seems they have more 
freedom than people/companies in some western countries these days. 
Or... I'll set up something here in Africa where we have paw prints all 
over the place ;-)

Paul.