- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:48:51 -0700
- To: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>
- Cc: "Waddell, Cynthia" <cynthia.waddell@psinetcs.com>, "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 11:55 AM 10/23/2000 , Leonard R. Kasday wrote: >Is there a legal problem presenting the logo as in (2)? For example, does >it endanger the copyright status of the logo (I may not have the exact >legal terminaology here BTW)? Is this legal difficulty sufficient that a >company could reasonably insist on presenting it as (1), or in some other >form that gives almost complete control of the appearance? And of course the biggest problem here is the possibility that we may make guidelines which force companies to choose between losing a trademark that is worth millions of dollars, and implementing web accessibility. If a lawyer can wave around parts of WCAG and say "by following these guidelines we are exposing ourselves to legal risk" then you can be sure no lawyer will ever support the implementation of WCAG-based guidelines on a web site. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Director of Accessibility, Edapta http://www.edapta.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/ What's on my bookshelf? http://kynn.com/books/
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