[Jewelry making - Article 00830] - Re: [Orchid] Models for medical jewelry

[James White]

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>         I am being told that there is no copy right on the star of life
>     emblem. Therefore, yes you can use it on custom medical alert
>     jewelry. 

    My expectation is certainly that the symbol was created to be
    "public domain" (meaning everyone owns it and can use it) but I don't
    KNOW that for a fact. I don't plan to do the research on it either.
    But there may be more to it than that. It is not unusual for safety
    and emergency symbols to have specific laws codified regarding them
    either nationally or on a state by state basis. I don't intend to do
    the research on that either but if I were going to use the symbol on
    jewelry I'd do one of two things, 1) verify just what **all** the
    applicable rules are for where you plan to use it or 2) only
    reasonably ascertain (such as the above NASEMSD reply) that I could
    use it then use it only in ways that seemed to comply with the full
    intent of the symbol (perhaps 2-D, blazing red, and above some
    reasonable size per readily available examples---or whatever). 

    Okay, just out of curiosity, I did do some NON-FINAL research: See
    http://northern.vaems.org/history_of_star.htm but also note that
    that article DOES NOT go into the rules applicable to the Medical
    Identification Symbol (Medic Alert) of the American Medical
    Association----so maybe they are the ones that should be contacted.
    If I were going to use the symbol I certainly would. 

    (I do KNOW, for example, that the "let your fingers do the walking"
    telephone yellow pages symbol, here in the US at least, was
    explicitly given to the public domain back when AT&T created it so
    anybody can use it. BUT, if you use it as a "confidence builder" for
    the public and are NOT in the yellow pages, in general, in the area
    you're using the symbol it is still fraud. I.e., the symbol is
    available for you to use but it must be used correctly within other
    rules too.) 

James E. White
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