[cc-licenses] OT: Colour

Peter Brink peter.brink at brinkdata.se
Tue Feb 13 17:01:10 EST 2007


Antoine skrev:
> Le mardi 13 février 2007 à 21:31 +0000, Rob Myers a écrit :
>> Mike Linksvayer wrote:
>>
>>> Tango uses BY-SA for icons and the base palette is in the public domain.
>>>
>>> http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project
>> Can palettes be copyrighted? Does it make a difference if they are an 
>> analogue set of samples or as  structured data?
> 
> Regardless of copyright, at least one colour has been patented: the
> "International Klein Blue".
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue
> 

It's not the colour as such that has been patented, its the medium, the 
pigment itself that has been patented. Since chemical compounds can be 
patented that is not a strange thing.

/Peter Brink



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