[legal] Permission to use a modified OpenID logo
colin.evans at nhs.net
colin.evans at nhs.net
Sun Aug 10 23:38:04 UTC 2008
These links give me a "failed to connect to documentum" error. What where
they supposed to indicate?
Regards: Colin Evans
NHS CFH Capability & Capacity
CONNECT DISCOVER SHARE eSpace today at
http://www.espace.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Cross [mailto:sites at thirdvisit.co.uk]
Sent: 10 August 2008 21:32
To: legal at openid.net
Cc: colin.evans at nhs.net; Snorri Giorgetti
Subject: Re: [legal] Permission to use a modified OpenID logo
Dear Colin,
> We would want to be sure that any use of an OpenID logo or other
> identifiers was either within existing terms, or under an explicit
> agreement. Can someone please come back to me to clarify whether we
> can proceed within some element of your existing terms of use, or
> whether this requires further discussions (and if so, who should we be
> talking to?)
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/domestic?domesticnum=2463818
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/domestic?domesticnum=2447866
> non-commercial purposes) was quite open, however this thread-
> http://openid.net/pipermail/legal/2008-March/000129.html in the legal
> archive seems to indicate that the trademark registration in the UK
> will be far more restrictive. It specifically says that colours etc.
> cannot be changed in the logo.
Please do get in touch.
Best regards,
Mark Cross
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colin.evans at nhs.net wrote:
> OpenID Team,
>
> I work within Connecting for Health, which is part of the UK National
> Health Service. I.e. we are a non-profit government organisation.
>
> I am currently working on a project where we are intending to use the
> OpenID protocols to implement a "Restricted Domain" ID service.
> Restricted means that only a specific set of web systems will be able
> to connect to the ID server, and this server will talk to only those
clients.
>
> We would like to give due credit to OpenID. However we would also like
> to avoid confusing users by implying that our service is an open "all
clients"
> service like myOpenID.com, which it is not. Users would not be able to
> use our IDs to log on to MySpace for example.
>
> We were therefore considering using a modified version of the OpenID
> logo (e.g. with changed colours) to identify our service. Initial
> reading on the main OpenID.net web site indicated that use of names
> and logos (for non-commercial purposes) was quite open, however this
> thread- http://openid.net/pipermail/legal/2008-March/000129.html in
> the legal archive seems to indicate that the trademark registration in
> the UK will be far more restrictive. It specifically says that colours
> etc. cannot be changed in the logo.
>
>
> We would want to be sure that any use of an OpenID logo or other
> identifiers was either within existing terms, or under an explicit
> agreement. Can someone please come back to me to clarify whether we
> can proceed within some element of your existing terms of use, or
> whether this requires further discussions (and if so, who should we be
> talking to?)
>
>
> Regards: Colin Evans
> NHS CFH Capability & Capacity
>
> CONNECT DISCOVER SHARE eSpace today at
> http://www.espace.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/
>
>
>
>
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