Announcements/RE: Please Read: Regarding Ambleside Online's Copyright Policy
11-04-2018, 11:49 AM
(11-04-2018, 05:35 AM)ccsdg Wrote: For example, if I design a logo in my own time and the Advisory don't like or want it. Am I allowed to then distribute the design? Sell it?
Over the past 20 years, countless people have approached us directly, privately, and respectfully to inquire if they could make money off of our work. I can't even describe what that looks like from our vantage point, but we always try to respond with courtesy to those who approach us with courtesy.
If I am reading correctly, ccsdg, you want to sell AO-branded merchandise even if the AO Advisory board disapproves-- as long as there is a legal loophole in our non-profit foundation's license agreement.
You are making sure we cannot protect our own work, even while you are checking to make sure you could protect yours.
In two decades of the Advisory providing this curriculum for free at great personal expense, this is possibly the most disrespectful request we have ever received.
The only entity that has any right to create and sell AO-branded merchandise of any kind is the AmblesideOnline Educational Foundation, and if the Board of AOEF ever chooses to do so, it will be to generate funds to improve AO's infrastructure and resources, and to keep the curriculum freely available for everyone into our old age and beyond.
Everyone including you and your children.
