"Sabrina Kilian" <ykg### [at] vtedu> wrote in message 
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> Chris B wrote:
>> One question open in my mind (because IANAL), is, if the image generated
>> becomes the property of the user, is there any danger that someone could
>> incorporate our works in a way that could prevent others from using it. 
>> For
>> example, could they use the image of a contributed object as part of a
>> trademark, or in an advert that associates the object with a well-known
>> product and thereby constrains people from using anything resembling 
>> their
>> trademark or any image that might be associated with their brand?'
>>
>>  Regards,
>>  Chris B.
>>
>>
>
> (IANAL but I could play one on TV)
> Considering how much work some companies put into keeping trademarks
> from being diluted, I doubt that a corporate lawyer would use an
> established object from a publicly available library that was
> copyrighted by someone else.
>
> No one sane would attempt to use some brand name can of soda from
> another company as a trademark. They may have a license to use it, but
> they do not have the copyright to it.
>
> Worst case would be that someone contributes something that they later
> sell to a company to use as their trademark. However, if all the license
> stuff is in order, people using the library have a perpetual and
> non-exclusive license to use that object.

I guess you're right. I think maybe that reading all this legal gobbledegook 
over the last couple of weeks has made me a little paranoid.

Regards,
Chris B.

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