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here is our reply: | here is our reply: | ||
From your description, it should be | From your description, it should be clear to anyone watching your | ||
film that you're just using the image to talk ''about'' Noisebridge, not claim | film that you're just using the image to talk ''about'' Noisebridge, not claim | ||
you ''are'' Noisebridge or that Noisebridge supports your film*. | you ''are'' Noisebridge or that Noisebridge supports your film*. | ||
Noisebridge as a community believes you you have the right to use such imagery | Given this, Noisebridge as a community believes you you have the free speech right to use such imagery without having to ask permission -- especially those who you might | ||
without having to ask permission | |||
be implicitly criticising or commenting upon. Such a right is encoded in the | be implicitly criticising or commenting upon. Such a right is encoded in the | ||
existing nature of trademark and copyright with the idea of fair use. | existing nature of trademark and copyright with the idea of fair use. | ||
Sadly, | Sadly, knowledge of such rights have been eroded over the years by the | ||
claims of copyright maximalists, who would have you believe that you must beg | repeated claims of copyright maximalists, who would have you believe that you must beg | ||
to refer to us in your film -- or | to refer to us in your film -- or even that you would be beholden to us if, | ||
for instance, you parodied our disrespectful attitude to your concerns with the | for instance, you parodied our disrespectful attitude to your concerns with the | ||
following image, which includes both of our | following image, which includes both of our identifying marks, the | ||
Noisebridge(TM) circuit, and the Unicorn Pissing A Rainbow(TM). | Noisebridge(TM) circuit, and the Unicorn Pissing A Rainbow(TM). | ||
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So we say tell your friends at DreamWorks to publish (or print, or produce) and | So we say tell your friends at DreamWorks to publish (or print, or produce) and | ||
be damned. Tell them we fully support them in their brave stand | be damned. Tell them we fully support them in their brave stand. You can say | ||
with confidence | with confidence that the only conditions in which Noisebridge would sue them and their | ||
partners to the maximum damages entitled to us by law would be if it turned out | partners to the maximum damages entitled to us by law would be if it turned out | ||
that hackers like us were completely hypocritical nihilists, out only for our | that hackers like us were completely hypocritical nihilists, out only for our | ||
own egotistical ends. Given that you were so nice as to ask us, we can't | own egotistical ends. | ||
imagine you think that of us | |||
Given that you were so nice as to ask us, we can't | |||
imagine you think that of us. | |||
Lots of love, | Lots of love, | ||