SSC Trademark Threats vs LinuxGazette.net

Zelligar writes "You may want to check into the brewing trademark issues between SSC/linuxgazette.com and the linuxgazette.net people - linuxgazette is a volunteer gazette, hosted by SSC for a while, and now SSC is taking it over - and threatening trademark litigation to boot! Here is one story and another on the subject."

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Re:Trademark

[Zeinfeld]

SSC owns the trademark, the "volunteer organisation" is made up of people who used to contribute to the SSC/linuxgazette.com site, and got angry that they migrated to a CMS, so they split and took the name. That sort of hijacking is what trademark law is for.

Exactly why should we care about this dispute?

If a bunch of folk get tweaked about using a content management system - a twenty year old technology used on the web for ten years...

Basically the group has forked and the dissident group had some links to their breakaway site. The SSC people then took out the links to stop people finding the breakaway site.

The breakaway site is also calling itself the LinuxGazette. This is probably actionable if there is a valid trademark registration. But at the end of the day it is not the name, its the audience.