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(I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, blah blah blah.) Absent any agreement with X, is "Xsucks.com" a trademark violation? I don't know. If it isn't, t
by billpg 17y ago
(I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, blah blah blah.)
Absent any agreement with X, is "Xsucks.com" a trademark violation? I don't know.
If it isn't, then no worries. If its not a trademark violation then X have no hold over you.
If it is, then what is the complaint against X? That they they are not helping people attack them by witholding permission to use thier trademark?
Say I owned the trademark "billpg" and someone was asking my permission to register "billpgIsAPatheticVirgin.com". Is it morally wrong of me to tell that person to go do something unpleasant?
- mechanical_fish 17y agoAbsent any agreement with X, is "Xsucks.com" a trademark violation? I don't know. I'm not sure anybody knows, and I'm particularly unsure that anybody can know in advance. That's why this particular legal agreement doesn't concede the point up front. The question of whether "billpgIsAPatheticVirgin.com" infringes on the "billpg" trademark involves questions like: Are customers being confused? These are not questions that you can answer in the abstract. If I merely register the domain but it doesn't get indexed by Google and I never show it to anyone, the answer is probably "no". If I put up a site at the domain that looks exactly like the official "billpg" site and then drive traffic to it, the answer moves towards "yes". If I deploy enough SEO tricks to drive billpgIsAPatheticVirgin.com to the top of a Google search page for "billpg", the answer is even more likely to be "yes". It's got to be hashed out in court, if it comes to that.
- cousin_it 17y agoWe (me and jacquesm) just made this: http://drupaltrademarkpolicysucks.com/ http://drupaltrademarkpolicysucks.com/ . Let's see how things develop.