Stop already with the whole "going to the wipo/UN" stuff. This is the process ICANN came up with, and is the standard method to dispute domain name infringement.
this insanity cannot stand. patents are published to alert the world how to reproduce your technology, and thus fully know about it, and to alert you that you must license it if you want to sell it. it specifically is designed so that your competitors can try to build upon it. How did we get to this point...
Derek, zazzle allows you to list your product you created on their public ecommerce site, and sell it to others. So, they could potentially be selling thousands of copies of of images taken directly from a movie cover or similar direct source. I agree that printing one item for yourself is one thing, but posting a product online for everyone to purchase does require they be more careful.
But if HP added your printed design to a store where anyone can then come buy it, they'd have to be really careful that these listings dont include infringing products. This is what zazzle is doing.
I think zaz actually is liable this time because I could-
-upload a picture of the movie poster
-buy a shirt with this on it (bad, but not terrible)
-list it for sale for others to buy (now we're pretty much infringing).
At step 3, zazzle is selling merchandise to the public with unlicensed works on them. This is where they have to be careful what they allow to be sold.
On the other hand, zazzle also has an easy mechanism to report these items as trademark infringement, and they'll take them off the site quickly. I know, I've had stuff removed for this, even for a frivilous reason.
as a taxpayer, i dont think my money should be forcibly taken from me to be given to researchers. but since it is, the very least they could do is make the results available to me.
maybe if this goes mainstream it'll cut down on some of the stupid suites out there..
thought it would sound kinda funny having doctors sue their patients as a preventative measure against malpractice! interesting.
what ron paul has been preaching years. While the fed tinkers with rates and the money supply, the result is inflation that kills savings, which is especially harmful to retirees who no longer have income.
You cant even hedge against this either... if you invest wisely and "keep up with inflation"... you still pay cap gains tax on your gains.
The justification is that cheap money promotes faster economic growth by encouraging spending yada yada. But explain how stealing from any savings i have is anything different than just that: stealing.
two things:
-for now, i dont care which format, because I can download ripped movies from either! ;)
-downloadable movies may suffer if the broadband guys start implmenting pay-per-data formats, like time warner is starting to...
that being, my "every invention" system which generates every possible idea that can every happen. 99.99% of them will be worthless, but who cares. I can throw a joke module in and then proceed to generate every possible joke that could ever be created. pay me sucka.
i wonder how much benefit online communties have had in preventing suicides... being able to talk things through with your peers online...Im guessing has helped far more than hurt.
These people are using trademark infringement as a means to take away property from others. Trademark infringement is SUPPOSED to mean you are using markings or names in ways which could lead to confusion with another mark and lead a consumer to think you are, or are associated with, the other party. If i have a squatter site that doesnt look anything like myspace, then I am not infringing myspace. I dont know what this site looked like, but the only way they could be guilty is if it were obvious that they were trying to confuse people into thinking they were on the official myspace site. If they were doing this, they are guilty. But Im pretty sure they were not, and thus this case should never have taken legal property away and given it to myspace.com.
And thus i repeat, this is really scary. Trademark was never meant to be this.
udrp is not "running to the un"
Stop already with the whole "going to the wipo/UN" stuff. This is the process ICANN came up with, and is the standard method to dispute domain name infringement.
lordy
this insanity cannot stand. patents are published to alert the world how to reproduce your technology, and thus fully know about it, and to alert you that you must license it if you want to sell it. it specifically is designed so that your competitors can try to build upon it. How did we get to this point...
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Derek, zazzle allows you to list your product you created on their public ecommerce site, and sell it to others. So, they could potentially be selling thousands of copies of of images taken directly from a movie cover or similar direct source. I agree that printing one item for yourself is one thing, but posting a product online for everyone to purchase does require they be more careful.
Re: Re: But...
But if HP added your printed design to a store where anyone can then come buy it, they'd have to be really careful that these listings dont include infringing products. This is what zazzle is doing.
gonna disagree this time
I think zaz actually is liable this time because I could-
-upload a picture of the movie poster
-buy a shirt with this on it (bad, but not terrible)
-list it for sale for others to buy (now we're pretty much infringing).
At step 3, zazzle is selling merchandise to the public with unlicensed works on them. This is where they have to be careful what they allow to be sold.
On the other hand, zazzle also has an easy mechanism to report these items as trademark infringement, and they'll take them off the site quickly. I know, I've had stuff removed for this, even for a frivilous reason.
Re:
Im guessing theyre not implementing this through a normal proxy server tho (that can be bypassed)?
and now...
several years later, i wonder what these numbers are like now ;)
im the boss
as a taxpayer, i dont think my money should be forcibly taken from me to be given to researchers. but since it is, the very least they could do is make the results available to me.
my brain
my brain is going to explode!
finally
maybe if this goes mainstream it'll cut down on some of the stupid suites out there..
thought it would sound kinda funny having doctors sue their patients as a preventative measure against malpractice! interesting.
and the loser is:
comcast. currently the worst in my book.
just found this
now i gotta go read the whole thing!
i got an idea
how bout a global ban on patents? now we're talkin!
Re: the american way
haha i read this and thought you said "100,000 and never have to work again"... was thinking, wow, if you live in box maybe ;)
easy...
easy solution- ignore the olympics. they were fun to follow... WHEN I WAS 12!
this is exactly...
what ron paul has been preaching years. While the fed tinkers with rates and the money supply, the result is inflation that kills savings, which is especially harmful to retirees who no longer have income.
You cant even hedge against this either... if you invest wisely and "keep up with inflation"... you still pay cap gains tax on your gains.
The justification is that cheap money promotes faster economic growth by encouraging spending yada yada. But explain how stealing from any savings i have is anything different than just that: stealing.
really?
two things:
-for now, i dont care which format, because I can download ripped movies from either! ;)
-downloadable movies may suffer if the broadband guys start implmenting pay-per-data formats, like time warner is starting to...
i gotta get this built
that being, my "every invention" system which generates every possible idea that can every happen. 99.99% of them will be worthless, but who cares. I can throw a joke module in and then proceed to generate every possible joke that could ever be created. pay me sucka.
and
i wonder how much benefit online communties have had in preventing suicides... being able to talk things through with your peers online...Im guessing has helped far more than hurt.
wrong
Dr. A- No, you missed the point.
These people are using trademark infringement as a means to take away property from others. Trademark infringement is SUPPOSED to mean you are using markings or names in ways which could lead to confusion with another mark and lead a consumer to think you are, or are associated with, the other party. If i have a squatter site that doesnt look anything like myspace, then I am not infringing myspace. I dont know what this site looked like, but the only way they could be guilty is if it were obvious that they were trying to confuse people into thinking they were on the official myspace site. If they were doing this, they are guilty. But Im pretty sure they were not, and thus this case should never have taken legal property away and given it to myspace.com.
And thus i repeat, this is really scary. Trademark was never meant to be this.