[Fedora-legal-list] Poster Competition on Women's and LGBT Issues

[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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