Comments on: Community Marks and Trademarks http://foolswisdom.com/community-marks-and-trademarks/ A fool and his blog are soon parted. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:05:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Dylan http://foolswisdom.com/community-marks-and-trademarks/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Dylan Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:07:29 +0000 http://www.foolswisdom.com/~lloyd/wordpress/?p=79#comment-145 Copyright and trademark law is entirely statute driven. The legal framework is merely the state's endorsement through legislation, monitoring through registration, and enforcement through judgment. I agree that understanding or making use of the law is out of the reach of many. Perhaps better education, access and refinement is the answer. Copyright and trademark law is entirely statute driven. The legal framework is merely the state’s endorsement through legislation, monitoring through registration, and enforcement through judgment.
I agree that understanding or making use of the law is out of the reach of many.
Perhaps better education, access and refinement is the answer.

]]> By: Chris Messina http://foolswisdom.com/community-marks-and-trademarks/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Chris Messina Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:04:10 +0000 http://www.foolswisdom.com/~lloyd/wordpress/?p=79#comment-144 Just a point of clarification: I cite Creative Commons as an example of a group/organization "filling in law" where existing legal doctrine falls short. Granted, licensing is more open to interpretation, nevertheless when you have a huge company like Microsoft adopting the premise, you start to see this kind of armchair-legislation can have teeth. As for Microformats and Bar Camp, I used those as examples of projects that could benefit from the establishment of Community Marks. I had a hard time writing clearly about the idea -- and I think it's somewhat incomplete, so your feedback is valuable. Anyway, I plan to start using this idea and see what kind of traction it gets. It's more about being proactive than just waiting for law to *poof* change! Just a point of clarification:

I cite Creative Commons as an example of a group/organization “filling in law” where existing legal doctrine falls short. Granted, licensing is more open to interpretation, nevertheless when you have a huge company like Microsoft adopting the premise, you start to see this kind of armchair-legislation can have teeth.

As for Microformats and Bar Camp, I used those as examples of projects that could benefit from the establishment of Community Marks.

I had a hard time writing clearly about the idea — and I think it’s somewhat incomplete, so your feedback is valuable. Anyway, I plan to start using this idea and see what kind of traction it gets. It’s more about being proactive than just waiting for law to *poof* change!

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