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It costs less than $2,500 to file trademarks in the US, EU and UK which is plenty of coverage. OBS has received hundreds of thousands in funding, from YouTube,
by 0xy 5y ago
It costs less than $2,500 to file trademarks in the US, EU and UK which is plenty of coverage. OBS has received hundreds of thousands in funding, from YouTube, Twitch and Facebook as well as smaller patrons.
Maybe $5,000 if you're talking about high-touch legal help or the trademarks are dicey.
- oefrha 5y agoOBS is the #10 most popular project on Open Collective[1] (plus other donations), so yeah, it is one of the top-earning FOSS projects that can afford it. [1] https://opencollective.com/discover https://opencollective.com/discover
- erk__ 5y agoIncluding $50,000 from the owners of Streamlabs, Logitech
- Warchamp7 5y agoFor what it's worth, Logitech made that contribution well before they bought Streamlabs
- erk__ 5y agoInteresting it was transferred in May 2019 and they bought Streamlabs in September 2019. I had not seen that.
- dpatterbee 5y agoPerhaps they were confused about the association between projects as well.
- skeeter2020 5y agoMaybe they too were confused and thought they were cutting a cheque to a subsidary, not a different OS project? ;)
- iaxx 5y agoWhen StreamLabs came out with SLOBS, OBS didn't even have an OpenCollective or Patreon. They were still getting off the ground.
- cpuguy83 5y agoIt costs significantly more to defend your trademark. Registering your trademark is pointless if you can't also defend it.
- eloeffler 5y agoDoesn't it at least protect you from someone else registering it and then suing you?
- foepys 5y agoNot really. Registering, yes, but you can sue anybody at any time. You might lose but it doesn't prevent you from suing. If you hold a trademark you are obligated to defend it. If you don't others can void it.
- pdpi 5y ago> but you can sue anybody at any time This is enough of a problem that anti-SLAPP laws have been passed in several jurisdictions. Those laws only go so far, though (and you still need to mount a defence of some description)
- rolandog 5y ago$2,500 would be about the average monthly gross income of a person earning $15/hr. And in terms of expendable income, that's an order of magnitude away of what people can shell out.