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Re: [cc-licenses] OT: Colour

From: Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] OT: Colour
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:01:10 +0100

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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