Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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  • Mood: angry

Trademark Stupidity

 It really aggravates me when people trademark parts of language that they did not make up, and then abuse said trademark by claiming that it applies to things which are not listed in their paperwork.
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  • 7 comments
catsittingstill

catsittingstill

December 14 2012, 12:09:30 UTC 8 years ago

I agree. Before you can saw something out of the language and reserve it to yourself, it has to be something you created that is unique to you.
ysabetwordsmith

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ysabetwordsmith

December 14 2012, 16:54:35 UTC 8 years ago

Ideally, yes. In practice, you can skive off with whatever you can get paperwork for. In this case, "space marine" was already in use decades before their game came out, and they trademarked it anyway. This is what leads so many people to ignore the laws routinely, and then we have worse chaos than if there were no laws on trademark or copyright. AND there's no way to protect the public domain.

I swear, they're worse than pirates. The pirates at least fling loot to everyone while robbing the content producers. The megacorps are more like dragons. They give a pittance to the producers, then sit on a giant mound of loot screaming "MINE! YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY!"