[cc-community] Strange uses of the CC logo

Gavin Baker gavin at gavinbaker.com
Mon Dec 10 16:46:43 EST 2007


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I see the CC logo (trademark, I should add) pop up in all sorts of
strange places:

On the front page of Flickr, seemingly to imply that the user photo
displayed on the front page is CC-licensed, when this is not always the
case -- this is the current front page image, ARR:

http://flickr.com/photos/ccgd/107274692/

On Barack Obama's campaign Web site, there used to be a little CC logo
at the bottom of the page, as described on this blog:

http://nonbovine-ruminations.blogspot.com/2007/02/creative-commons-logo-on-barack-obamas.html

I emailed the campaign last week to ask about it (their TOS conflict
with any CC license), and I never received a reply -- but the logo
appears to have been removed.

So are people just slapping "CC" on stuff willy-nilly, or what?
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Gavin Baker
http://www.gavinbaker.com/
gavin at gavinbaker.com
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