"Charles Sweeney" <me.RemoveThis@charlessweeney.com> wrote in message news:<bf28aa$aagvf$1@ID-162618.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> What's the worst that can happen? The copyright owner asks you to remove
> the logo.
>
> This assumes that your customer is not trying to pass himself off as the
> copyright owner's business, which from what you say doesn't look to be the
> case.
No, that's the worst that would *probably* happen. The worst that *can* happen
is that the copyright holder decides to sue your customer for violating his
copyright - and he names you as a co-defendant for being aware of and complicit
in his violation.
If your customer is really not-for-profit, then this is unlikely, because while
he could easily be found guilty, the holder couldn't easily prove damages (unless
your customer is devaluing the copyright in some way). But it's possible,
especially since you were fully aware of the violation, and you were at least
tacitly complicit, and you've now demonstrated all of this to the world by
posting to USENET.
I'm not a lawyer, and I'm just giving you what I perceive to be the absolute
worst case. If you plan on doing design for money over the long term, you're
best off playing it straight. Sure, this case probably won't bite you. But
if this happens 20 or 30 times, it probably *will* bite you at some point.
Jim<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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