Profiting from the Feed Icon ?

January 12, 2009 9:58 PM

Profiting from the Feed Icon ?

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If I wanted to do a design that includes the Feed Icon as the main focus (but not as the main subject) and the icon is only seen in less than ~25% of the design as a small element or if the Feed Icon is broken up in half or in a few pieces, would that be "okay" with Mozilla's Feed Icon Guidelines? The design would then be sold for profit of course.

If you read the last 3 answers/paragraphs on their guidelines, it is really loosely written. So what is stopping people from making Feed Icon designs and selling them as t-shirts and mouse pads on CafePress?

If you check iStockphoto, there are people who sell the actual icon file with little to no accompanied designs/artwork: http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&text=rss+feed+icon

posted by querty to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

If you read the last 3 answers/paragraphs on their guidelines, it is really loosely written. So what is stopping people from making Feed Icon designs and selling them as t-shirts and mouse pads on CafePress?

If you mean legally "okay":

Am I required to follow the proposed feed icon usage guidelines?
No. The proposed usage guidelines are not legally binding in any way.
posted by null terminated at 10:35 PM on January 12, 2009

Not sure how this answers the question definitively, but note ChicagoBreakingNews.com (from the Tribune Corp.).
posted by dhartung at 11:47 PM on January 12, 2009