On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Walter H. van Holst wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 17:39, Michael Hart wrote:
Trademark law basically forbids "trading on the good name" of the trademark holder. Thus is it illegal to resell PG eBooks without permission if you use the Project Gutenberg name to do so. Project Gutengerg is a registered trademark.
It appears that people are confusing using the registered trademark with acknowledging the source of the documents. They are not necessarily the same and perhaps Project Gutenberg could clarify what they consider trademark infringement and non-infringing acknowledgements.
You can't resell IBM computers as new without trademark infringement, even if they are genuine IBM computers: this is called "gray marketing." IBM has the right to have only licensed vendors sell their products, the same goes every other trademark. If you haven't requested and received permission, you are not licensed, and thus would be infringing on the trademark. This is not true of used goods, as far as I know. mh