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Re: ISO Warning Signs

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Post by tokai »

formerly_proven wrote: post #8
techdragon wrote: post #3

This is one of those standards I wish we could just unlock as free. We are surrounded by these symbols due to their obvious utility, to the point where I routinely see them used unknowingly on things that cannot possibly be legal given the copyrights inherent in the original source material, yet because many people not working in an industry that comes across such standards documents as part of standards compliance..…

> given the copyrights inherent in the original source material It's not obvious to me that (under US law) these are copyright protected. It may be a similar case as typefaces vs. fonts. The language on the ISO website suggests, at least to me, that you are paying for particular files in particular formats and are not licensing a protected symbol. Also the language in the ISO standards describes abstract symbols, and…

All the signs are marked as public domain or with a CC license on wikipedia. So you definitely wont have to buy the standard.

If you are producing warning signs for selling you might want to buy it to get the true colour data etc.

Re: ISO Warning Signs

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Post by tialaramex »

techdragon wrote: post #3

This is one of those standards I wish we could just unlock as free. We are surrounded by these symbols due to their obvious utility, to the point where I routinely see them used unknowingly on things that cannot possibly be legal given the copyrights inherent in the original source material, yet because many people not working in an industry that comes across such standards documents as part of standards compliance..…

ISO is a "traditional" international standards body whose members are sovereign entities (well, national standards bodies on behalf of those sovereign entities). If they'd like to pay ISO to give this stuff away I'm sure that would be fine.

Conveniently your government (as one of those sovereign entities) also decides what the laws about "intellectual property" are where you live. If you live in a democracy of some sort, this is in some sense up to you.

But if you live somewhere with like, poverty and kids dying of preventable diseases and so on (which you do, that's basically all of the sovereign entities regardless of whether they've got democracy), I can already guess why they didn't fix those, and the reason to not make ISO standards freely available will be similar: That would cost money.

Re: ISO Warning Signs

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Post by ZeKK14 »

techdragon wrote: post #3

This is one of those standards I wish we could just unlock as free. We are surrounded by these symbols due to their obvious utility, to the point where I routinely see them used unknowingly on things that cannot possibly be legal given the copyrights inherent in the original source material, yet because many people not working in an industry that comes across such standards documents as part of standards compliance..…

All the signs in the article are listed as "Public domain".

Edit: this is discussed on https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/8586/can-i...

Re: ISO Warning Signs

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Post by gus_massa »

dtagames wrote: post #5

Will the phone symbol need to be updated since phones haven't looked like that in a long time? It could be tough to explain the "emergency phone" one, for example, to a kid.

Peppa still uses an old phone https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wi... I couldn't find the exact frame in the video, but there are a few where she or a friend is using a phone like that, and also a few with a wireless phone.

Re: ISO Warning Signs

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Post by mchesters »

asojfdowgh wrote: post #2

118 CHF (123 USD) to have warning signs... I'm glad that the UN didn't go with these, since interoperability of safety symbology should not be restricted to everyone but poor people I just wish the UN's efforts went further than just chemicals

In the UK, you can buy these signs from building retailers (edit: for the cost of a sign, not the ISO Standards document).

I suspect you would need to pay if you were manufacturing these signs for resale, to ensure your signs were ISO compliant.

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