Practical Trademark Law For FOSS Projects
summary
Open source projects can and should manage their own marks: the Apache Software Foundation holds trademarks for 250+ projects and offers a policy, templates and a trademarks mailing list. Trademark registration costs a few hundred dollars, takes about 4–6 months, and must be filed in the appropriate class; once registered switch TM to ®. Use names as adjectives on home and download pages, expect nominative use allowed, follow register in right class and use trademark as adjective to avoid confusion.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Practical Trademark Law For FOSS Projects
- 0:41Introduction
- 1:52Open Source Runs The World
- 2:50Components Vs. Products
- 3:57Software Trademarks Are Easy
- 5:17What Are Trademarks?
- 7:40Don't Confuse Projects with Products
- 10:25Trademarks Protect Consumers
- 12:23Use In Commerce
- 15:17But It's Open Source!
- 18:38How Trademarks Work With Open Source Software
- 18:57Trademark Use By Others
- 21:20Nominative Use
- 23:03Infringement
- 29:26Everything Else
- 34:41Trademark Registration Classes
- 36:44Registration Prevents Many Problems
- 40:29Duty To Police
- 42:35Take Action
- 42:52Trademark Policies
- 44:04Respect FOSS Trademarks
- 45:45Avoid Court
- 47:41Open Source Talent
- 48:32Final Lessons
- 49:25FOSS Trademark Resources
- 51:01Brand / Social Resources
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