Familiar Logo?

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For some reason or another I was registering a .net passport to a disposable email address yesterday and I found a logo that's rather familliar. Coincidence?
http://spaces.msn.com/mmm2006-01-16_18.44/images/setup/IconProfile.gif
compared with:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/thumb/2/2e/Ubuntu.gif/180px-Ubuntu.gif
Source: here (http://spaces.msn.com/).

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Very, very, very old :)

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So I take it copyright does not apply to microsoft?

[Adrenal]

So i take it the requirement of doing a search before posting does not apply to you?

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So I take it copyright does not apply to microsoft?

Copyright doesn't mean you can't make similar things, it means you can't digitally copy images/sound/etc. you don't have copyright on or re-publish text you haven't authored yourself.


So i take it the requirement of doing a search before posting does not apply to you?

Come on, don't be bitter, it hurt no one.

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I understood copyright law covered derirative works.
a derivative work is an second artistic creation that includes major basic copyrighted aspects of an original first work that was previously created. Those basic first work originator's copyrights must be granted to the secondary work for the secondary work to be rightfully called a 'derivative work'. If no copyright permission is granted from the first originator, the second creation is called a 'copy'.[source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work)]
Surely the latter image is a derirative of the first?

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No it's not. If it used orange/red circular bars with circles on top of them then it probably would be in violation. Making an image that looks a bit like another image isn't covered by any sane copyright law.