Dear list, I would like to start some R workshops at King's College London, and to do so, I would like to use the "Use R!" logo at http://www.agrocampus-ouest.fr/math/useR-2009//useR%21%202008_fichiers/useR-middle.png Since it seems to be difficult to get a shell account at KCL, I also went ahead and registered use-r.org.uk and am starting to put together a website at kcl.use-r.org.uk. I really like the "Use R!" slogan, which seems to be used by the R user conferences and Springer (the latter without the exclamation mark). Even more, I really *really* like "Use R!" logo. I think it is very elegant indeed! Kudos to whoever designed it. However, I'm completely in the dark about copyright issues of the logo and the slogan. Can I use (a) the logo and/or (b) the slogan for the KCL R workshops? I think it is quite clear from "my" website that this is neither about the Springer book series nor about an R user conference. I enquired with the agrocampus-ouest.fr website about the logo but was pointed to r-project.org and the R development core team. I thought in that case it might be best to ask here to have the answer publicly available -- sorry if I overlooked the information online somewhere. Marianne -- Marianne Promberger PhD, King's College London http://promberger.info R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) Ubuntu 9.04
Marianne:> I would like to start some R workshops at King's College London, and > to do so, I would like to use the "Use R!" logo at > http://www.agrocampus-ouest.fr/math/useR-2009//useR%21%202008_fichiers/useR-middle.png > > Since it seems to be difficult to get a shell account at KCL, I also went > ahead and registered use-r.org.uk and am starting to put together a > website at kcl.use-r.org.uk. > > I really like the "Use R!" slogan, which seems to be used by the R > user conferences and Springer (the latter without the exclamation > mark).The conference is called "useR!" and Springer decided to call their series "Use R!" (with exclamation mark) after asking us for permission.> Even more, I really *really* like "Use R!" logo. I think it is very > elegant indeed! Kudos to whoever designed it. > > However, I'm completely in the dark about copyright issues of the logo > and the slogan. > > Can I use (a) the logo and/or (b) the slogan for the KCL R workshops? > I think it is quite clear from "my" website that this is neither about > the Springer book series nor about an R user conference.No, sorry, the logo/name should be used exclusively for the Springer series and the R User Conferences. For the latter see http://www.R-project.org/conferences.html Hence, the logo of your workshop and preferably also its URL should be different. You may use "R" in the title though and have the usual R logo on the workshop page. Best regards, Z> I enquired with the agrocampus-ouest.fr website about the logo but was > pointed to r-project.org and the R development core team. I thought in > that case it might be best to ask here to have the answer publicly > available -- sorry if I overlooked the information online somewhere. > > Marianne > > -- > Marianne Promberger PhD, King's College London > http://promberger.info > R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) > Ubuntu 9.04 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >
Perhaps: Yooze R! On second thought, probably not quite right for King's College. Then? dig R! -- David On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Marianne Promberger wrote:> Dear list, > > I would like to start some R workshops at King's College London, and > to do so, I would like to use the "Use R!" logo at > http://www.agrocampus-ouest.fr/math/useR-2009//useR%21%202008_fichiers/useR-middle.png > > Since it seems to be difficult to get a shell account at KCL, I also > went > ahead and registered use-r.org.uk and am starting to put together a > website at kcl.use-r.org.uk. > > I really like the "Use R!" slogan, which seems to be used by the R > user conferences and Springer (the latter without the exclamation > mark). > > Even more, I really *really* like "Use R!" logo. I think it is very > elegant indeed! Kudos to whoever designed it. > > However, I'm completely in the dark about copyright issues of the logo > and the slogan. > > Can I use (a) the logo and/or (b) the slogan for the KCL R workshops? > I think it is quite clear from "my" website that this is neither about > the Springer book series nor about an R user conference. > > I enquired with the agrocampus-ouest.fr website about the logo but was > pointed to r-project.org and the R development core team. I thought in > that case it might be best to ask here to have the answer publicly > available -- sorry if I overlooked the information online somewhere. > > Marianne > > -- > Marianne Promberger PhD, King's College London > http://promberger.info > R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) > Ubuntu 9.04 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT
>> Can I use (a) the logo and/or (b) the slogan for the KCL R workshops? >> I think it is quite clear from "my" website that this is neither about >> the Springer book series nor about an R user conference. > > No, sorry, the logo/name should be used exclusively for the Springer series > and the R User Conferences. For the latter see > ?http://www.R-project.org/conferences.html > > Hence, the logo of your workshop and preferably also its URL should be > different. You may use "R" in the title though and have the usual R logo on > the workshop page.You can certainly claim copyright on the logo, but through what right do you claim ownership of the term "useR!" ? Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/