Poster Competition on Women's and LGBT Issues

[inode0]

There recently was this "event" which claims to be a Fedora supported event.

http://www.wfs-india.org/p/poster-competition-womens-and-lgbt-issues

I can't find anything in the trademark guidelines that allow the use
of any Fedora trademarks or the claim of support from the Fedora
Project without written permission for an event such as this. I might
be missing something but since more such "events" seem to be
anticipated I would like to get a clarification about where things
like this fall in the trademark guidelines.

Since this sort of event is clearly not remotely like those described
in the waiver granted to ambassadors for promotional events

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Promotional_events

is there any other place in this document that allows ambassadors (or
anyone else) to do this without permission?

Thanks,
John

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:23 PM, inode0 <inode0(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  There recently was this "event" which claims to be a Fedora
> supported event.
>
>  http://www.wfs-india.org/p/poster-competition-womens-and-lgbt-issues 
Oh, hrm..  This came up during the Board townhall and at the time I
did not notice it says "... in collaboration with Fedora and
Mozilla...".  That indeed might be somewhat of a problem.  As I said
during the townhall, I don't think Fedora can prevent people from
giving away USB keys with Fedora on them as prizes, but claiming
collaboration with the organization is entirely different.  I wish I
had notice that during the townhall.

josh

[Tom Callaway]

On 07/05/2013 06:23 PM, inode0 wrote:
>  There recently was this "event" which claims to be a Fedora
> supported event.
>  
>  http://www.wfs-india.org/p/poster-competition-womens-and-lgbt-issues
>  
>  I can't find anything in the trademark guidelines that allow the use
>  of any Fedora trademarks or the claim of support from the Fedora
>  Project without written permission for an event such as this. I might
>  be missing something but since more such "events" seem to be
>  anticipated I would like to get a clarification about where things
>  like this fall in the trademark guidelines.
>  
>  Since this sort of event is clearly not remotely like those described
>  in the waiver granted to ambassadors for promotional events
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Promotional_events
>  
>  is there any other place in this document that allows ambassadors (or
>  anyone else) to do this without permission? 
Not to my knowledge, no.

~tom

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