Re: Unkown LilyPond community.

[Owain Sutton]

The copyright statement applies to the website contents, not the name. The name 
LilyPond could be considered to be a trademark, but that will vary according to 
the jurisdiction. There's no assertion of it being a trademark present on 
lilypond.org (at least that I can find), which would be very disadvantaeous 
where the law expects proactive defence of a trademark, as in the US. There's 
also no suggestion it's been registered as a trademark in any country.

In any case, a trademark does not give absolute monopoly over the use of the 
word, only in application the specific field concerned (hence Apple the 
computer company, and Apple the record label). This other site has nothing 
whatsoever to do with music notation, and it would be hard to argue that 
there's any real likelihood of confusion among users (see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry).

On 13:31, Mon 01 Jul 2013, Shane Brandes wrote:
> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:31:20 -0400
> From: Shane Brandes <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Unkown LilyPond community.
> To: Pierre Perol-Schneider <address@hidden>
> Cc: lilypond-user <address@hidden>
> List-Id: LilyPond user discussion <lilypond-user.gnu.org>
> 
> I am surprised they did not bother to look around and simply declared
> copyright to such a thing. After all LilyPond as we use it has been around
> at least 10 years now.
> Shane
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Pierre Perol-Schneider <
> address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > While looking for some codes I just found this e-community few minutes ago:
> > http://lilypond.media.mit.edu <http://lilypond.media.mit.edu/about>
> >
> > with a nice copyright : © 2011 LilyPond
> > http://lilypond.media.mit.edu/about
> >
> > I'm surprised  that one can use LilyPond's name that way.
> > Any comments ?
> >
> >
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