At 6:04 PM -0800 1/12/00, FEATHER2s@aol.com wrote: > >My opinion is that we should either request that Rootsweb remove the USGenWeb >logo from non-USGenWeb pages, as we have done with every other non-official >site, or allow anyone to use the logo so long as it's a link back to the >USGenWeb Project. Any attempt to be selective will be met with ugly >accusations of discrimination, etc., and increases our vulnerability to >litigation. I personally favor the second approach, except that I would add "and as long as it is clear from the context in which the logo appears that it does not identify the page as part of The USGenWeb Project." Things that would make it clear include: 1. Text explicitly saying "This page is not part of the USGenWeb Project". OR 2. Using an approved modified version of the logo which contains text identifying some auxiliary role (such as Jen Godwin's variations - I think a simple "Visit USGenWeb" would be a nice addition too. Short and sweet, and it makes it very clear that it is intended as an external link. You wouldn't be invited to "visit" USGenWeb if you were already there.) OR 3. Including the USGenWeb icon somewhere on the bottom half of the page, in a cluster or row along with the icons of other genealogy projects or web sites. The confusion we want to avoid is some visitor to a "look-alike" county or state page thinking they are at a USGenWeb page when they aren't. So we should still disallow putting the full-size logo somewhere on the top 4 inches or so of a page unless it is an official Project page. Putting little logo icons near the bottom of web pages is so common that people don't tend to view them as automatic indicators that the page "belongs to" the organization that the logo is trademarked by. Think of all those ubiquitous "Best Viewed with Internet Explorer" or "Made on a Macintosh" icons. You never think the pages belong to Microsoft or Apple. Note that the above policy would allow the way in which the logo formerly appeared on The Migration Page and the USGenNet home page. Teri Pettit pettit@adobe.com USGenWeb CC Representative, Southeast-Mid Atlantic Region http://www.best.com/~tpettit/usgenweb/board99.html