Couple of weeks ago mastodon instance “Mastodon.ART” added icons from Creative Commons project to the arsenal of custom emojis to be used in toots (posts). One user wondered if this use is legally correct, so after some discussion I sent an email to Creative Commons about it and after a week or so got an answer. I’m replicating this correspondence here to put their answer in perspective.
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=================================================================== From "Luka Prinčič" To info@creativecommons.org Date April 25, 2018 12:23 PM (15 days ago) hi, I'm writing you as a member of creative community on a mastodon instance Mastodon.ART - part of a currently largest decentralized federated open-source microblogging social network (think twitter-like but without the algorithmic timelines, ads, celebrities and harasment... more below) Mastodon.ART is just one of many self-run and self-organized communities that sprung up in last two years as part of mastodon network. Mastodon.ART is the biggest node that is solely dedicated to various forms of art and creativity. as with most of communities on mastodon (and the software itself), work by developers and administrators is funded by users via donations (Patreon, LiberaPay). some members of this community are publishing their works (visual, music, poetry..) under CC licences. among other things, mastodon software enables upload of custom emoji sets for each instance. only users on that instance can use an emoji provided by that instance inside their posts (tweets/toots) - these posts are federated accross the network to other instances (servers/communities/nodes). in the community we wanted to include CC icons as emojis for different CC licences in order to promote and motivate the use of CC and enable attractive way how creators can mark their posts where they announce new CC-licenced works. we were wondering if that (see example below) constitutes any breach of your policy on use of your trademarks. we would be very happy to receive a response from your side about it that would resolve our reservations. if you see a problem, we would be happy to know how we could resolve it in order to incorporate the ease of use of CC-licences when creators publish their works (or links) on mastodon.art instance. please take a look at examples: how one would make a post with icons and CC-licence mark: https://mastodon.art/@Yalyn/99889756794873616 https://mastodon.art/@Yalyn/99885069850752900 also attached is an image of post compose form with emoji selection dialog. here's our discussion about reservations on the use of icons: https://tootplanet.space/@InspectorCaracal/99917707562066246 read more about our mastodon instance mastodon.art: https://mastodon.art/about/more read more about mastodon network: https://joinmastodon.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE thank you for your time and kind regards, Luka =================================================================== |
I attached a screenshot of custom emojis on mastodon.art:
Their answer was:
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=================================================================== From "Creative Commons" <info@creativecommons.org> To luka _ lukaprincic _ si Date May 9, 2018 7:39 PM Hi Luka, Apologies for the delay getting back to you; I wanted to circle internally to make sure before I replied. The consensus was yes, this is a great use of the CC icons! Thanks very much for reaching out to us. Let us know if we can help in any way. Thanks again! Sarah --- Creative Commons =================================================================== |
