The legalities of using (copyrighted?) Amiga logos on websites

[Martyn]

DonnyEMU wrote:

The Boing! logo was adoped by A Inc. but never was an offiical symbol that was owned and used by Commodore.. Why?? Because they adopted it too, and it wasn't originally copyrighted by Commodore. But the developer of the Boing! ball demo.

Which was?  As far as I'm aware the people who wrote it were RJ Mical and Dale Luck at the 1984 CES, while working for the original Amiga Inc.

So i would have thought its copyright went with all the other stuff to commodore et al.  AFAIK anyway.

The CD32 logo should be with AInc too.

The Commodore logo/copyrights are currently held by Tulip computers (unless THAT's changed recently).


But unless your using them for profit, i think you're safe from any troubles.

[Martyn]

DonnyEMU wrote:

I remember for sure (I was an original Amiga developer with CATS) and the copyright on that was owned not by Commodore but by Dale Luck.

I bow to your better knowledge on that, then.  I had no idea he owned it personally.  A lot companies have evil contracts about what you do and do not own while you're employed by them.  Even things you do in your own time!

Remember the OS was brought in from the UK after Commodore had hardware.

Only the DOS subsystem was bought from Metacomco and integrated with the rest of the Amiga OS (despite the author, Dr TIm King, claiming he wrote all of it).

In the beginning was CAOS.