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Being online isn't a business. stripe.ian.sh does not compete with stripe.com, and there's zero risk of consumer confusion between these two websites. Stripe.co
by rgbrenner 9y ago
Being online isn't a business. stripe.ian.sh does not compete with stripe.com, and there's zero risk of consumer confusion between these two websites. Stripe.com has no case for trademark infringement.
- mikeokner 9y agoIf I were Stripe.com's legal counsel, I'd have already fired off a C&D. Stripe.ian.sh isn't trying to subvert traffic, but the entire point of this exercise is to show how it's possible to be confused for the real Stripe.com under certain circumstances. It's a fine line and if I were from the real Stripe I wouldn't want to let those sorts of grey areas go unchallenged.
- rgbrenner 9y agoFree speech is a defense for trademark infringement, especially non-commercial speech. Showing how someone could theoretically be confused is not the same as actually being confused. Consumers aren't confused by someone writing an article about a company... that's not trademark infringement. A trademark does not give you rights to prevent people from writing about your company.
- patmcguire 9y agoArticle has screenshots of it intentionally looking like the stripe homepage. Guess that was an older version, and now it's just a blog post, but it has had the exact same look.
- agwa 9y agoNo, the screenshot shows a window containing the real Stripe overlapping a window containing Ian's site: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/safari.jpg https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/safar... Ian was not impersonating the real Stripe.