I've read the interesting discussion of years ago regarding the trademarks for the PS button prompts, and I have to say it's a pretty interesting one. As far as I understand, the main reason to prohibit submitting content to OGA using those are because of the site policy, right?
For now I've updated the download to exclude the trademarked button prompts and added a link to the full version as per your suggestion.
Would it be sufficient to include an extra note to indicate that the trademarked icons are trademarks of their respective companies? This is also how the Font Awesome project licenses their free icons, which includes a lot of brand icons: CC-BY 4.0 license but with the extra note that brand icons are trademarked. Otherwise, I think the usage of the PlayStation button icons as button prompts should fall under nominative fair use, specifically "The product or service cannot be readily identified without using the trademark (e.g. trademark is descriptive of a person, place, or product attribute). Same goes for the Windows key on keyboards. I'd be willing to remove the Xbox and PS logo buttons, as I think they aren't really used for button prompts either way, but the PS icons seem too much of an integral part of button prompts to remove them.
I've read the interesting discussion of years ago regarding the trademarks for the PS button prompts, and I have to say it's a pretty interesting one. As far as I understand, the main reason to prohibit submitting content to OGA using those are because of the site policy, right?
For now I've updated the download to exclude the trademarked button prompts and added a link to the full version as per your suggestion.
Thanks for your comment!
Would it be sufficient to include an extra note to indicate that the trademarked icons are trademarks of their respective companies? This is also how the Font Awesome project licenses their free icons, which includes a lot of brand icons: CC-BY 4.0 license but with the extra note that brand icons are trademarked. Otherwise, I think the usage of the PlayStation button icons as button prompts should fall under nominative fair use, specifically "The product or service cannot be readily identified without using the trademark (e.g. trademark is descriptive of a person, place, or product attribute). Same goes for the Windows key on keyboards. I'd be willing to remove the Xbox and PS logo buttons, as I think they aren't really used for button prompts either way, but the PS icons seem too much of an integral part of button prompts to remove them.