[Noisebridge-discuss] so i am writing this letter to dreamworks

[Tony Longshanks LeTigre]

I can do it by later tonight (say 4am?) if no one else does first.

I was present at the last meeting & heard your planned response to them
BTW. Bravo, brill!

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:

> ... who asked us for permission to use the Noisebridge logo in their
> Wikileaks movie. The consensus is that we should write to them to
> explain that in a sane world, they wouldn't need to ask permission to
> use a logo when conducting free speech discussions of such matters --
> that nominative fair use should work to cover any such usage, as long
> as they don't suggest that Noisebridge is paying for the movie, or
> endorses it. But sadly, some industries (hem hem) pursue a crazy
> maximalist intellectual property model that believes that you can't
> even use simple words and symbols without some elaborate licensing
> regime, and that simple conversations can be wiped out and censored in
> the interests of pursuing a bizarro version of an outdated system of
> copyright control.  So, we're not going to give them permission,
> because we believe that they don't need it, and the only reason we
> would sue them is that if we were ethically bankrupt greedy fools. So
> really whether they use the symbol is down to their own vision of what
> they themselves think their fellow humans are like. If they think that
> the world is simply full of people who pursue goals for money and
> selfish motives, they should probably not use the Noisebridge logo. If
> they think hackers might be actually an ethical bunch of people who
> would not compromise their ideals simply to make a buck, they should
> go ahead and use it.
>
> Anyway, I will edit that down at some point, but in the meantime --
> would somebody like to photoshop incorporate the noisebridge logo as
> the moon in the Dreamworks logo? It would allow me to explain how
> logos might be used, using fair use, as part of an ongoing
> conversation. (Incorporating the peeing unicorn is an optional extra).
>
> d.
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