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Originally Posted by rust
I appreciate and support your intentions, but I have serious doubts that your idea really would work.
For example, we could hardly prevent the use (or misuse) of "our" logo by any
publishers, unless we would in some way become a legal entity, and would be willing to file lawsuits against anyone using "our" logo without our permission.
Since there are (as far as I know) still no rules for European (= EU-wide) non-profit organizations, we probably would have to establish legal entities in all of the EU member states to be able to "protect" our logo in any meaningful way.
And without protection the logo would not really be useful for customers, I think.
In my opinion it would be easier to use something more personal, perhaps a short line written by the forum administrator or thelike, instead of a logo. To copy and use a logo is rather easy, to copy and use a personal opinion under a certain person's name is illegal in any case and any legal system.
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Ah, but the idea is that we needn't do the dirtywork - we could leave that to the authorities. One of the tasks of the consumer protection agencies is to act against misleading commercial practices. A misleading actions is an action that deceives or is likely to deceive the average consumer about, for example, the main characteristics of the product (see
the EU directive concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices, art. 6.1 for more details).
What we would do would be to complain to the authorities that a publisher uses the logo in a misleading way, deceiving the consumers about the nature of his product, and then let the consumer protection agency do the work for us.
The purpose of the charter and the logo is to establish a proof of what is it that the consumer expects from a d100 compatible product.
Does this make sense?
/Peter