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Re: LUGNET logo
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Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:26:22 GMT
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"Anders Isaksson" <isakssson.etuna@ebox.tninet.seREMOVE> writes:

Hi Todd!

I think it's a beautiful collection of logos, but are You sure You
are not infringing on a copyright here?

The Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd has claimed copyright on the
'impossible triangle' (he started making his in 1934), and he has
succesfully won when some advertising company used such a
triangle.

Interesting...wasn't aware of Reutersvärd's work.  Thanks for the name.

Just found these through Alta Vista:

   http://illusionworks.com/html/impossible_triangle.html
   http://illusionworks.com/html/art_of_reutersvard.html

If the ad company used that triangle, with separated blocks and an open
middle, and maybe the same colors and maybe different colors, and he won his
case, I'm not surprised.  If the ad company did a drawing based on those
blocks but was fundamentally different and he still won his case, then I'd be
surprised.  Of course copyright laws are different in every country, right?

I'm not terribly worried that our logo is too similar to Reutersvärd's to be a
problem, but thanks much for the pointer...  Do you have any more info on the
copyright case against the ad company?


As for the other two pictures, they are _very_ much inspired by
M.C. Escher, aren't they?

The middle one is, yes; the bottom one isn't, no.

--Todd



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(...) automatically creates the impossible picture for you, even though the shadow tells you that it is not so. Apperently my brain wants to believe the impossible, against the evidence. ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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