Archive for October 26th, 2006
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Does a good cause justify dubious IP law?
I’m not a big fan of trademarking geographical areas, more correctly ““geographical indicators”, (thank you french wine merchants who started off the whole trend) especially when it has become generic (what do you call parmesan if the Italians have their way and cheese makers can’t use that term anymore?). Even more worrying is the move […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Making new friends and cute logos
Friends4Days is a sweet little site where you get matched with someone and you can converse for four days and then decide whether you want to keep them as a friend (presumably it has to be mutual) and then you get another friend in your inbox. I’m imagining that for the most part if the […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Power to the People (Trademark)
Checked out this site and I have no idea what they do because I couldn’t get past their tagline: “This Is Your Internet! Are you ready to take control?”TM
Well if it’s my internet, why are you asserting that it’s your trademark*? It’s some P2P thing which is “patent pending”**… groan…
*The “TM” just asserts it’s […]
