I'm a student senator with SGA at Florida State University. Our SGA seal and the FSU seal both have three torches in them. You can find both at http://sga.fsu.edu/ the SGA one is obvious, the FSU one on the bottom right.
The licensing department has issued us a copyright violation type thing when placing our seal on a bus we provide for the students and on a newspaper bin thing that provides free newspapers for students.
They say we need to change our seal because the three torches are from the FSU seal and we need permission first. This comes as a surprise to us since we've had the SGA seal for decades.
I was wondering how valid this claim was. The torches are not even identical or anything, and if you check out fsu.edu, they're changing the FSU seal torches to a more graphic look.
Also, the FSU seal is pretty old. The first time the torches show up in the seal is back in 1901. The seal has changed, but the torches haven't really.
Can we argue this or is it simply a violation?
2006-08-02
19:45:52
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