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(...) Strikes me as a strong argument for allowing banners and other items to be retrieved directly from your server instead of requiring that we host them in our space. (1) My LUGNET button is back level, and now my Fibblesnork banner is too. Hmm.. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I guess you'd be pretty surprised at some of the legal questions I've asked TLG out of the blue then! :-) Maybe I'm just weird like that. (...) That doesn't help me worry about it any less. But again, maybe I'm just weird like that. (...) Hmm. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) And on that note, I just removed the red 2x2 LEGO brick that I used to have in the logo here: (URL) can't go around being a hypocrite! --Todd [followups to lugnet.publish] (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Fibblesnork banner??? (...) SOP for buttons on the web is for people to make local copies, because pages load faster that way -- the client's browser is only making an HTTP connection to a single server. I certainly practice deep linking to (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) c /banner/logo/ and go look at my LEGO(R) front page. You'll see what I mean. It's a banner or logo and it promotes your site. Glad to do it, mind you, but feel that my point is valid. Most everything else there loads from elsewhence. (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Speaking of which, did you get my request to post my banner (soon to be banners on your CLSotW banner page? Also, I was thinking of entering my Star Wars Lego Design Contest page for CLSotW consideration, do you think that is appropriate? I'd (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yeah, as much as I think this whole "trade dress" thing is silly, I agree 100% with Todd right here. Don't get me wrong - I LOVE ldraw.org - I love all the hard work that's gone into it. And maybe it's just the fact that I'm colorblind that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Or something that's not any kind of a brick. Steve (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Well, if we were to contact TLG, what would be the best approach to it, to get on their good side? I'm not totally objected to contacting them, I just would like to make sure we've done everything we can to have them not jump on us beforehand. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Oh! I see what you mean now. You placed a copy of the flb-logo-small.gif image at the bottom of your page. Hrrm. Re-reading the Terms of Use on the (URL) I guess that point #1 is ambiguous... 1. These images are original artwork and are (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yup, got it -- it's in my inbox. I usually update the CLSotW banners page on Sunday at the same time as updating the CLSotW itself, but since you wrote "I'll have a 40x400 banner for my main site soon," and yours was the only submission that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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I KNEW I should not have gotten into this. The outcome I desired was that you'd agree that you should host banner ads/logos/whatevers used by others to promote your sites, just as everyone else does. In fact many people actually REQUIRE it, they (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Hmm, I don't think I've actually ever seen that before your mentioning it. Upon looking around a bit, I do see a -bit- of that now. Here are some sites that I'm aware of which distribute promotional images... Note that among this particular (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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Todd Lehman wrote: <snip a bunch of technical stuff> OK, OK. I still think I'm right though, just too lazy to compose as long a reply as you did. I'm arguing about something which I think is to YOUR benefit, so I'll stop. I may be trying to teach (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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Todd: On a tangential topic... is it Fibblesnork, fibblesnork.com, or both that you are asserting trademark on? (I assume both) This discussion caused me to spend some time revising and extending my Disclaimers Page ((URL) which I happen to think is (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Just the first one. --Todd (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I _don't_ necessarily think you're _not_ right (vis-à-vis deep linking of banner and button images). It's just such an insignificant thing to worry about in the grand scheme of things, IMHO. Especially when deep linking presents problems that (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Well if they're not text links, what are they to be then? You've removed the logo, right? So text is only choice available. Under the first numbered item, nothing other than backgrounds themselves is allowed to be copied and you don't support (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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Another tangential question... why item #5? (...) An earlier version of my factoring form had the white image as background for the whole thing, except the table cell at the very top which is sort of a title block (that part now has white bricks, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Use your imagination. If someone wanted, they could use any of: * Plain text (obviously :) * Rendered text, as seen for example in the left column of (URL) * A screenshot/thumbnail (almost certainly fair use if it's not too big), with or (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Hmm, good question. IIRC, #5 was written long before backgrounds could be put into tables. So the motivation behind #5 wouldn't have been aesthetic, but rather to limit the ripping off of the images as a collection. But #4 already addressed (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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Once again, insufficient precision results in my looking rather foolish (but I meant to do that, I never make misteaks). (...) <various hypothetical, but not branded, non text ways of depicting a hyperlink> What I was getting at is that while (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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