9 Aug
2007
9 Aug
'07
12:20 p.m.
See, this is one part of the reasons why I don't actively follow the list:
Patrick Finnegan said:
And this is from a friend even!! :/
First of all, how would I be ruining someone's life by running an event
parallel to someone trying to steal my international brand name? I'm not
threatening to burn down their house and kill their pets, for fuck's sake.
I'm not even threatening to sue! I'm offering a rather democratic way to
resolve the issue: go to the fake "VCF" or the real VCF, and see which one
you prefer. I'm willing to bet that most people would choose the real
VCF, and the fake "VCF" would suffer. The question is, does anyone really
want to take the gamble? It would be easier to just come up with your own
damn name.
As others previously have pointed out, this is a brand identity I have
developed over the course of 10 long years. I'm not going to let anyone
use it unless I approve. I'd be an idiot to allow otherwise.
If someone produced a cola and started selling it as "Pepsi", would you
have sympathies with Pepsi or the person egregiously stealing the brand
name? Anti-capitalist lefties aside, I have a pretty good idea that the
legal system would side with Pepsi (the real one).
Would you go to MacWorld run by Apple, or "MacWorld" run by a guy named
Abdullah? And would you criticize Apple for suing the hell out of
Abdullah for infringing on their trademark?
Pat, you know the deal. You produce the VCF Midwest under an ad hoc
license. Why should I let someone else just take it and run with it as
they wish? I certainly wouldn't give you that type of leeway. Nor anyone
else for that matter.
Are UK nerds just anti-ownership in general, or only because I'm the one
raising a beef over the prospect of someone stealing my brand identity?
Unreal.
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Indeed. I
view Sellam's attitude as a response to all of the people
who recently were saying, in effect, "Screw your copyright, I'm using
your name anyway!"
It'd be nice if Sellam could at least figure out how to say this in a
non-"I'm going to ruin your life for doing something that's not nice"
sort of way.