The trademark "Drupal" belongs to Dries Buytaert, but the Association has the ability to use the trademark freely as long as Dries retains ownership and remains a Permament Member and as long as the Association takes reasonable steps to reserve the trademark rights.

Dries Buytaert owns and retains full rights to the domain names drupal.org and drupalcon.org (among some others), though the Association is granted permission to use the domains to achieve its goals.

The copyright of both the Drupal software and the "Druplicon" logo belongs to all the original authors, though both are licensed under the GPL.