There recently was this "event" which claims to be a Fedora supported event.
http://www.wfs-india.org/p/poster-competition-womens-and-lgbt-issues
I can't find anything in the trademark guidelines that allow the use of any Fedora trademarks or the claim of support from the Fedora Project without written permission for an event such as this. I might be missing something but since more such "events" seem to be anticipated I would like to get a clarification about where things like this fall in the trademark guidelines.
Since this sort of event is clearly not remotely like those described in the waiver granted to ambassadors for promotional events
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Promotional_events
is there any other place in this document that allows ambassadors (or anyone else) to do this without permission?
Thanks, John
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:23 PM, inode0 inode0@gmail.com wrote:
There recently was this "event" which claims to be a Fedora supported event.
http://www.wfs-india.org/p/poster-competition-womens-and-lgbt-issues
Oh, hrm.. This came up during the Board townhall and at the time I did not notice it says "... in collaboration with Fedora and Mozilla...". That indeed might be somewhat of a problem. As I said during the townhall, I don't think Fedora can prevent people from giving away USB keys with Fedora on them as prizes, but claiming collaboration with the organization is entirely different. I wish I had notice that during the townhall.
josh
On 07/05/2013 06:23 PM, inode0 wrote:
There recently was this "event" which claims to be a Fedora supported event.
http://www.wfs-india.org/p/poster-competition-womens-and-lgbt-issues
I can't find anything in the trademark guidelines that allow the use of any Fedora trademarks or the claim of support from the Fedora Project without written permission for an event such as this. I might be missing something but since more such "events" seem to be anticipated I would like to get a clarification about where things like this fall in the trademark guidelines.
Since this sort of event is clearly not remotely like those described in the waiver granted to ambassadors for promotional events
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Promotional_events
is there any other place in this document that allows ambassadors (or anyone else) to do this without permission?
Not to my knowledge, no.
~tom
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