Hi,
Days ago members of our LoCo team noticed that a Chilean consulting company is using part of the Ubuntu logo (the circle of friends)
It’s look familiar … or not? What we should do as LoCo Team?
We’ll appreciate any kind of help.
Cheers!
UPDATE: This post had a good effect from Convoca guys. They changed its logo into
Thanks to everyone who gave me ideas to solve this conflict.
This is a violation of the Ubuntu trademark, owned by Canonical. Email Canonical so they can unleash their lawyers. mwahaha
It’s the best thing to do, seriously.
I will see chilean lawyers fraged….
hahahaha…..
Right, this is a violate of the Ubuntu logo trademark, as per this policy: http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy
Unleash the Layers
or just send a polite email telling them what they have done and explain that this is a battle that may not be worth their time fighting.
lawyers should always be a final and unwelcome resort.
I agree with simon. Talking before fighting is always a good procedure. And is a particularly efficient procedure when the talking involves something like “you know, they guy behind the company that might sue you is a guy rich enough to travel to space, so can you figure out with which lawyers you’ll be dealing with?”
Simon, finally a voice of reason in these cases. Folks always think they are the ones that should do something. Inform Canonical, and if they aren’t jerks, they will have their lawyer send a friendly message to the company.
As a team you shouldn’t do anything. Inform Canonical via email and let them police their trademark.
WE DON’T NEED NO LAWYERS!
My advice : warn both parts about copyright infringement.
Copyright infringement is a legal matter, and trademark policing is necessary. Lawyers != fighting, but there is a certain legal procedure that needs to be followed to make sure everything happens smoothly. No one said call a lawyer, they said to let the copyright holder know so that they can handle it. That’s the correct advice.
The fact that folks are offering advice against copyright infringement demonstrates that you should not listen to their advice. This is not a copyright case. It is about trademark. The laws dealing with each are significantly different. What you are allowed to do with one, you are not allowed to do with the other.
Incorporating the ubuntu logo, owned by Canonical (likely) can appear to give Canonical’s support to the company. This is precisely what trademark law was designed to prevent.
Please, if you are unfamiliar with the difference between copyrights, and trademarks, withhold your comments, they’re likely to have no legal standing.
Contact Canonical and let them handle it.
Lawyers are in fact the best people to handle this.
Obviously, they won’t barge into the doors with lawsuits ready…
Fixed!
I love how you hotlinked the logo, and how Convoca then corrected the problem, making the fix appear right in your original blog post. Now it looks like you were just imagining things…
Seems like this was resolved in a good way, then.
“I love how you hotlinked the logo, and how Convoca then corrected the problem, making the fix appear right in your original blog post. Now it looks like you were just imagining things…”
Ohhh, OK. Explained then … I read all comments and didn’t see anyone going: What? It has nothing to do with Ubuntu
Good to see it was resolved.
ehhm good logo