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**Vokbeelllicky** · 09-24-2008, 07:08 AM

so let me get my head round this.

you're at college your pissed at your teacher,for doing what he did.

yet in the real world if it wasn't cited but used etc,you and the company you work for would be sued into the ground for unauthorized use/ non acknowledgment of original copyrighted/intellectual material by its respective owners.

am I righty ?

For the others maybe. In my case I used the Java logo from Sun Micro Systems. I did not claim it to be my own. In fact, the page was about the Java language and provided links to their site to get people started with Java. I think use of that logo in this non-profit, educational page constitutes fair-use. Sun would certainly not be pissed, but I didn't cite it and now I get in hot water.

I get your point, but I don't think it's the same. This isn't a page made for money. It's a page made cause we had too.

And even if it had been a larger, non academic site, the use of a logo in the context I did would be fair-use (I think, I don't really know much about the law).

edit - See here http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/p.../fairuse.shtml

I think my use falls well into fair use of a logo.

09-24-2008, 07:08 AM	#4
Vokbeelllicky Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 603 Senior Member	so let me get my head round this. you're at college your pissed at your teacher,for doing what he did. yet in the real world if it wasn't cited but used etc,you and the company you work for would be sued into the ground for unauthorized use/ non acknowledgment of original copyrighted/intellectual material by its respective owners. am I righty ? For the others maybe. In my case I used the Java logo from Sun Micro Systems. I did not claim it to be my own. In fact, the page was about the Java language and provided links to their site to get people started with Java. I think use of that logo in this non-profit, educational page constitutes fair-use. Sun would certainly not be pissed, but I didn't cite it and now I get in hot water. I get your point, but I don't think it's the same. This isn't a page made for money. It's a page made cause we had too. And even if it had been a larger, non academic site, the use of a logo in the context I did would be fair-use (I think, I don't really know much about the law). edit - See here http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/p.../fairuse.shtml I think my use falls well into fair use of a logo.
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