Most screaming case for a community mark license I’ve seen in a while is the utterly cool PARK(ing) Day. Basically, they’ve got a very cool idea (probably patentable, not copyrightable) and have registered a mark (PARK(ing) Day, protected but not under copyright.) And they’ve put the thing (or tried to put it) under a CC-BY-NC-SA license, which is (say it with me, kids) a copyright license. And hence doesn’t accomplish what they want to accomplish, legally-speaking.
This isn’t really their fault; as far as I know no one has creatively addressed their needs1. Still, frustrating to see. If only there were 30 hours in the day…
- just as no one has creatively addressed the need of the spec writers [↩]
Isn’t September 19th already taken? http://www.talklikeapirate.com/tlapd08.html
Completely agree with this need, Luis. We desperately need a group of freedom-fighters to get their arms around trademarks and do the equivalent of OSI or CC on them before someone gets badly hurt.
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