[cc-community] Strange uses of the CC logo

Kevin Driscoll driscollkevin at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 16:59:40 EST 2007


I suspect that in some many, the CC logo is added as a part of a
template and not consciously being applied to the actual content of
the site.

It could happen, for example, when someone downloads a Wordpress layout.

Kevin



On Dec 10, 2007 4:46 PM, Gavin Baker <gavin at gavinbaker.com> wrote:
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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?
> - --
> Gavin Baker
> http://www.gavinbaker.com/
> gavin at gavinbaker.com
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