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Removed themes for copyright reasons
Chronon:
Although, I believe that parody is considered fair play. The Evolution Control Committee has defended its right to appropriate and remix icons from pop culture as it creates parody and no prospect exists for it to be mistaken for the original product.
To wit:
So, we shouldn't assume that any and all appropriation of privately controlled media is illegal. I'm not making any statements about themes currently in the wiki or any that have been removed. I'm just pointing out that in some cases, image re-use is protected.
Avid:
Wouldn't the Invader Zim theme be violating copyright too?
madsic:
--- Quote from: Chronon on May 25, 2007, 09:52:41 PM ---Although, I believe that parody is considered fair play. The Evolution Control Committee has defended its right to appropriate and remix icons from pop culture as it creates parody and no prospect exists for it to be mistaken for the original product.
To wit:
So, we shouldn't assume that any and all appropriation of privately controlled media is illegal. I'm not making any statements about themes currently in the wiki or any that have been removed. I'm just pointing out that in some cases, image re-use is protected.
--- End quote ---
Well, the American copyright doctrine of fair use and it's protection of parody is probably applicable in principle to the examples you mention. However, a) I believe we're legally in Sweden at least as far as hosting goes (and I don't know anything about Swedish copyright law apart from what the piratbyrån says... :) ) and b) nothing that Ive seen in the wps galleries would remotely qualify as 'parody'.
In general, I second Llorean's suggestions. Open source projects shouldn't be about second rate rip-offs of commercial applications.
lights0ut:
--- Quote from: madsic on May 27, 2007, 12:23:30 PM ---.... Open source projects shouldn't be about second rate rip-offs of commercial applications.
--- End quote ---
agreed, I'm sick of seeing vista or OSX clones on KDE-look.org and GNOME-look.org.
Chronon:
--- Quote from: madsic on May 27, 2007, 12:23:30 PM ---In general, I second Llorean's suggestions. Open source projects shouldn't be about second rate rip-offs of commercial applications.
--- End quote ---
I also completely agree with this. I wasn't making any sort of broad justification that the project _should_ include any particular instance of image re-use. Your point that the servers operate out of Sweden is well taken. Does this mean that Swedish law is the only relevant law here?
Suppose I wanted to make an Evolution Control Committee theme. Would this be allowable?
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