You can do all that just fine as long as you aren't charging for the redistribution. The money only comes into play if your are charging something for the redistributed works. Basically, if you're charging for it, we want our fair cut. If you're handing them out for free, no problem. See you on the flip side, dude! :) JHutch ----- Original Message ----- From: "David A. Desrosiers" <hacker@gnu-designs.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:47:32 -0400 (EDT) To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Re: unauthorized PG venders
Formatting (or reformatting) is not the issue, it's use of the trademarked name.
Agreed, but reformatting would likely include the trademark.
If someone creates, say, a PDF format eBook, the question is whether the PG trademark is used or not. The reformatting doesn't matter (except that it might change from the 15% to the 20% royalty level in the small print).
Ok, so our only real recourse, gives us the right to convert the works to another format (we're talking about handheld redistribution here) but not provide any links to PG, or use PG in any of the names or attribution? Wouldn't that be a copyright _and_ trademark violation, because we'd be forced to "remove" all references to PG from the actual works themselves. Obviously, I don't want to do this, because I respect and support the project.
Doesn't that make it impossible, since our entire intention would be to include PG in each of the texts, to draw more readers of the works and generate some interest in the project.
Ideally, and I can expand on this if anyone is specifically interested in the goals and design, we would be splitting the books up to include pages, chapters, TOC, attribution, and hopefully a PG logo emblazened across each work.
I've got a schema and some code designed to suck the entire PG tree into the db, which we can then tokenize and output in any format we want.
It isn't polished or "pretty" yet, we're still in the preliminary stages, but if we can't redistribute the converted works, giving credit to PG, the project is dead, full-stop.
Let me know, because this puts a big kink in the works.
d.
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