Documentation Images: Display OSD

Pascal de Bruijn pmjdebruijn at pcode.nl
Tue Dec 29 14:41:33 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Niklas Park <niklas.park at gmail.com> wrote:
> A little warning seems to be in place here.
> I can't see how you could put these screenshots under CC, FDL or any other
> license, since the copyright clearly belongs to the manufacturer of the
> device, or the person or entity the manufacturer licenses the OSD from. I
> can't really see that a screengrab could constitute original art under any
> jurisdiction.

Well, you've got a fair point there... In this case that would be HP...

> The best one could hope for is that using these images constitutes fair use,
> of course with correct attribution to the copyright holder, but IANAL.

Since it's not a 1:1 (pixel-perfect) copy, and doesn't contain any
brand logo's, it probably does...

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn



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