Helgard opened this issue on Sep 22, 2006 ยท 30 posts
arcady posted Sat, 23 September 2006 at 3:03 PM
The poor legal footing also applies to work put out for free.
Copyright and trademark both do not care if the work is free or commercial - if it violates copyright and / or trademark, it violates it equally either way.
The holder of a copyright can choose to ignore your violation at no risk to them, but the holder of a trademark will lose that trademark if they fail to sue you. Even for work you put out for free.
This might very well apply to the items in the images I posted earlier in the thread just as much as the items in main discussion. Art can be violated like this as well - suits in music are common, and sometimes over as little as a single stanza or even just four notes.
Truth has no value without backing by unfounded belief.
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