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Unbranded: Lindens To Ban Unauthorized Virtual Copies of Real World Brands on
Ecommerce Site
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| Starting on September 14, virtual Angelina Jolie will no longer be for sale
| on Second Life's ecommerce site. (Unless, that is, Ms. Jolie herself sees fit
| to put a copy of herself on xStreetSL, the Lindens' ecommerce site, which was
| acquired last January.) The same can be said of virtual Barack Obama, several
| avatar versions of whom are now for sale on xStreetSL, like this one. Unless,
| again, the President himself authorizes someone to create and sell a version
| of his appearance as an avatar.
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http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/08/no-rl-sold-in-sl.html
Recent:
Trademark Insanity
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| It's bad enough that we have to deal with struggles over the use of
| trademarks that have become generic terms, like "Xerox" and "Coke", and
| trademarks that were already generic terms among specialists, such
| as "Windows", but a new low in trademarking has been reached by the joint
| efforts of Dell and the US Patent and Trademark Office. Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
| reports that Dell has applied for a trademark on the term "cloud computing".
| The opposition period has already passed and a notice of allowance has been
| issued. That means that it is very likely that the application will soon
| receive final approval.
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| [...]
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| In other words, this is a pure example of theft from the public domain.
| Speakers of English have a term, "cloud computing", which the US government
| is on the verge of privatizing and assigning exclusively to Dell. Other
| companies providing similar services will not be able to describe what they
| are doing as "cloud computing" anymore than Nike will be able to describe its
| shoes as Reeboks.
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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=434
Infringing On Wolverine?
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| Do me a favour folks - have a look at the screengrabs posted here (do feel
| free to view them larger by clicking on them) and tell me if any of these
| images even remotely refer to or is connect in any visual way to the upcoming
| movie "X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE"?
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http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2009/04/x-infringed.html
Taser Sues Second Life Virtual World Creator Over Gun Sales
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| Taser International Inc. filed a trademark-infringement lawsuit against the
| Second Life online virtual world creator over claims it sells unauthorized
| virtual versions of its electric stun guns.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aR6xHcnBMn9M&refer=us
Taser Sues Second Life For Having Virtual Tasers
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090421/1310304599.shtml
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