[cc-community] Strange uses of the CC logo

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Mon Dec 10 17:47:11 EST 2007


We do our best to email people about the trademark policies of CC, but
there comes a limit to how much we can get done...

http://creativecommons.org/policies

While we can't really deputize a bunch of ppl., of course the link above
is meant to assist those in how they *can* use the cc logo and
trademarks.

If there is ever a question email here and same to
http://creativecommons.org/contact


On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 16:46 -0500, Gavin Baker 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/

I don't see?

> 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.

That's unfortunate they don't have cc license button and link...should
lobby to get that back on his site! Mass email!!! ;)

> So are people just slapping "CC" on stuff willy-nilly, or what?

Well, there is a fine line between going crazy with this, people wanting
to show support for CC and then what is allowed.

As a cc employee ( ;) ), I'll just say these uses should be in line
with:

http://creativecommons.org/policies

Jon (IANAL)

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