[maemo-community] RFC - logo submissions

[From: Tim]

	> Funny enough, I also liked Samantha's first one - but I had the
 > impression I'd seem it before somewhere...
 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics 

	I think that the resemblance is too close... Of course, I'm not
accusing plagarism by any means. I just think that we need to choose
something that's stark in its uniqueness. 

	Tim 
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 Date: 07/28/2008 1:19 pm
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 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:20:37 +0100
 From: "Andrew Flegg" 
 Subject: Re: RFC - logo submissions
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 On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Dave Neary  wrote:
 > Andrew Flegg wrote:
 >>   #samantha - crayon person[1]:
 >>             fun and professional, energetic, agile, human.
 >
 >> [1]
http://wiki.maemo.org/Image:Maemo.org_logo_contest_samantha_1.png
 >
 > Funny enough, I also liked Samantha's first one - but I had the
 > impression I'd seem it before somewhere...
 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics
 Hmm, good spot.
 > Is this close enough that we should be worried?
 Now I've seen the Olympics one, I don't know. They're certainly very
 similar in their design concepts, although we aren't saying that
 samantha copied it - the styles are different and its a fairly
 archetypal image.
 There are two questions:
 1) Are people going to associate the logo with the Olympics more
than
 maemo.org? (obviously, given maemo.org is fairly small scale, the
absolute
 answer is "yes"; but I mean in the subset of people who know about
Maemo)
 2) Are there trademark concerns?
 I can't answer (2), and I /didn't/ associate it with the Olympics...
 until now. Something for the judges to weigh up, perhaps, rather
than
 explicitly banning it. If samantha mounted a spirited defence here,
I
 could wholly back it... and that could feed into the judges'
decision
 making.
 Cheers,
 Andrew
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 Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew at bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/
 

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