Are Darkcoins logos and images copyrighted?
Is there a problem with using the logo on shirts, physical coins etc to sell at cost price?
It'd be cool to see a physical coin
Technically, anything is copyrighted the second it is created.
I created the current 3D coin graphic. And I would not really appreciate someone selling shirts of it.
Though I don't mind people using it virtually/on-line for an icon or website. That's what it's for.
But selling completely for it's "graphic value", like on a t-shirt, would bug me.
You'd have to ask Evan or somebody official about the D logo itself.
Evan and/or Darkcoin Foundation own that. It was contracted and paid for thru DesignCrowd.
I was thinking of doing some shirts with it myself since I have a nice super hi-res version and can make variations.
But I haven't heard anything back from a similar inquiry (about t-shirts) to Evan.
Fair enough, was more interested in the D logo tbh
Thanks for the response and your work looks awesome
Everything the Darkcoin community bought (the logo and everything else) belongs to the darkcoin community. As for Enzwell's graphics? I figured that would have been covered by the boundy we paid.
You never got back to me on my t-shirt inquiry a couple weeks ago, so I wasn't sure how things were gonna work. I'm not from this world.
I coulda got a head start at least.
So there ya go folks. It's a free for all.
Intellectual property rights for a decentralised community brings interesting challenges. IPR requires protection, who would seek IPR infringement action?
Maybe the Darkcoin Foundation would need consensus to own certain IPR, but that starts to focus attention on a central point of potential failure if people start to use Darkcoin for illicit activities. The alternative would be class actions by those that contributed to bounties.
I'll take a look and see if there are any precedents - starting with the bitcoin foundation.
