Re: iTunes playlist icons
Re: iTunes playlist icons
- Subject: Re: iTunes playlist icons
- From: "Mark Munz (DevList)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:19:36 -0500
Besides playing the waiting game, I think there are really two
additional paths you could follow:
1. Write some code that extracts the icons from iTunes at runtime
(perhaps caching them for performance) and then use them as needed
(so they are never in your product). If the icons can't be found, use
some basic icon in its place.
Since 99.999% of OS X users will have iTunes, you'll be able to find
the icons and will simply be using the icons that the user already
has. This follows a similar principle of apps that collect icons and
images for the user to use as he/she wishes.
2. Ask someone like Iconfactory (or other icon designer) to create
similar icons for you and be done with it.
Just my two cents.
Mark Munz
On Sep 15, 2005, at 1:10 PM, John Stiles wrote:
On Sep 15, 2005, at 8:38 AM, Martin Hairer wrote:
You might want to contact Apple to get the rights to use those
images, as they are copyrighted elements. You could open
yourself to a potential infringement case if you just grab them
without permission.
Since I was also thinking about using some of Apple's icons in my
program
(basically the standard icons for the preferences panel, like
"General",
"Advanced", "Software update", "Colors", etc), I did contact Apple
about it at
<email@hidden> as instructed on
<http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/guidelinesfor3rdparties.html>.
This was one week ago and I haven't received a reply yet. Should I
interpret
this as meaning that Apple doesn't mind third-party developers
making use of
their icons in a reasonable way in order to present a coherent
user interface
but were told (for some reason that escapes the understanding of
common mortals
like me) by their lawyers not to openly say so? Regards,
No reply is certainly not the same as implicit acceptance :)
Until you hear otherwise, you can't really make any sort of
assumption like that.
Realistically, will you get sued? Smart money says no. But that's
another assumption that might come back to bite you :)
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