Roger Dingledine commited on 2012-12-05 18:10:05
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or project is made or endorsed by The Tor Project. Creating a new brand |
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that incorporates the Tor brand is likely to lead to confusion.</p> |
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+ <a id="researchpapers"></a> |
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+ <h2>What about cute Tor-derived names in research paper titles?</h2> |
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+ <p>Tor enjoys a vibrant <a |
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+ href="https://research.torproject.org/">research community</a> |
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+ that examines anonymity attacks and defenses, design improvements, |
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+ impact on society, and so on. We think it's great that professors |
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+ and other researchers continue to contribute to our community, |
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+ and we've even gotten funding from the National Science Foundation |
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+ to help keep the Tor design and code researcher-friendly. The <a |
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+ href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/">anonymity bibliography</a> lists |
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+ many research papers that use Tor-derived names in their titles: |
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+ Torsk, DefenestraTor, Tortoise, LASTor, Torchestra, StegoTorus, |
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+ and more.</p> |
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+ <p>Since the authors of these research papers aren't trying to make |
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+ a profit from them, and (because they're just papers, not products) |
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+ the papers aren't confusing Tor users into running potentially unsafe |
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+ software, we believe that the use of the Tor mark in these research |
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+ paper titles is acceptable non-trademark or fair use.</p> |
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+ <p>That said, if the research paper comes with software, and that |
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+ software could potentially confuse people (users or other researchers) |
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+ about whether it's written or endorsed by The Tor Project, then we're |
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+ back to the <a href="#combining">above scenario</a>.</p> |
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<a id="enforcing"></a> |
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<h2>Does this mean you're enforcing trademark rights?</h2> |
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<p>The Tor Project is a non-profit corporation organized to research and |
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