<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>What are thoughts on making some use of trademarks a privilege of being an OSM local chapter?</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" <osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Thursday, December 20, 2012 4:41 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Osmf-talk] Trademark Policy<br> </font> </div> <br>
All,<br><br> one thing that the OSMF is likely to decide on in the coming year is a policy that governs the use of our trademarks.[*]<br><br>A typical trademark policy looks like this:<br><br>"Use of our name/logo/... is permitted for the following cases: ... In all other cases you require explicit permission from us."<br><br>and this will often be accompanied by an informal/unwritten custom about when and under what conditions such an "explicit permission" will usually be granted.<br><br>In a crowdsourced project like ours we have tons of individuals using our name all the time, and in most cases we *want* (or even require) them to use it. There have been a few isolated cases in the past where we (politely) asked someone to rename his iPhone App because it sounded too "official", or where asked someone to let us have a named page they had created in the social media space, but neither the positive nor the negative cases are nailed down in any
kind of policy.<br><br>I would like to invite the readers of this list to discuss what uses of our trademarks we should generally allow/encourage, and for what uses we should require people to get explicit permission from us.<br><br>The OSGeo foundation, which is in a loosely comparable situation to us, has the following trademark guidelines (and theirs is, in turn, a shortened and modified version of the Mozilla Foundation's policy):<br><br>http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/legal/trademark_guidelines.html<br><br>Do you think something similar would work for us? Are there bits in there where OSM should be stricter, or more liberal, about trademark use than OSGeo?<br><br>Bye<br>Frederik<br><br>[*] Trademarks, here, means trademarks we already have or aspire to have - basically, our name and logo.<br><br>-- Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a ymailto="mailto:frederik@remote.org" href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>
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