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Apparently, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark#Trademark_erosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark#Trademark_er...

• jwb119 15y ago
  for what its worth, that applies to trademark not copyright
• martey 15y ago
  IANAL, but since the content in question is not a trademark, I do not think that genericization applies. Since Hyperbole and a Half is Creative Commons licensed (CC-NC-ND), it looks like its licensing requirements would be satisfied by attributing the original source ("Proper credit includes a prominent, easily visible link to the source of the material you want to use...")[1]. I think making sure that images in your blog post are properly licensed is difficult [2], but on the same level of difficulty and importance as determining a license for a software project [3]. [1]: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/p/faq_10.html http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/p/faq_10.html [2]: I have personally had issues with this, which I wrote about at http://www.marteydodoo.com/2011/01/19/licensing-is-hard/ http://www.marteydodoo.com/2011/01/19/licensing-is-hard/ [3]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-license.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-...
  • lambada 15y ago
    You should balance that against the fact that the license also forbids Derivative Works (the ND in the CC-BY-NC-ND) - which likely means that the images themselves, even with attribution, are breaking the license.
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