<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"><meta content="Group-Office 2.18" name="GENERATOR"></head><body><p>> Funny enough, I also liked Samantha's first one - but I had the<br />
> impression I'd seem it before somewhere...<br />
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics</p>
<p>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.</p>
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:20:37 +0100<br />
From: "Andrew Flegg" <andrew@bleb.org><br />
Subject: Re: RFC - logo submissions<br />
To: "List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Dave Neary <dneary@maemo.org> wrote:<br />
> Andrew Flegg wrote:<br />
>> #samantha - crayon person[1]:<br />
>> fun and professional, energetic, agile, human.<br />
><br />
>> [1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Image:Maemo.org_logo_contest_samantha_1.png<br />
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> Funny enough, I also liked Samantha's first one - but I had the<br />
> impression I'd seem it before somewhere...<br />
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics<br />
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Hmm, good spot.<br />
<br />
> Is this close enough that we should be worried?<br />
<br />
Now I've seen the Olympics one, I don't know. They're certainly very<br />
similar in their design concepts, although we aren't saying that<br />
samantha copied it - the styles are different and its a fairly<br />
archetypal image.<br />
<br />
There are two questions:<br />
<br />
1) Are people going to associate the logo with the Olympics more than<br />
maemo.org? (obviously, given maemo.org is fairly small scale, the absolute<br />
answer is "yes"; but I mean in the subset of people who know about Maemo)<br />
<br />
2) Are there trademark concerns?<br />
<br />
I can't answer (2), and I /didn't/ associate it with the Olympics...<br />
until now. Something for the judges to weigh up, perhaps, rather than<br />
explicitly banning it. If samantha mounted a spirited defence here, I<br />
could wholly back it... and that could feed into the judges' decision<br />
making.<br />
<br />
Cheers,<br />
<br />
Andrew<br />
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