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How I Got Fired From the Job I Invented
New submitter frost_knight writes "Travel blogger Turner Barr discovered that his entire brand, image, and web personality has been hijacked by a multi-billion dollar company for use in a marketing campaign. 'The video for their marketing campaign was particularly creepy for me, as even my age and personality didn’t escape the level of detail spent on creating this doppelganger (they used a paid actor of course). ... I’m no longer even the first thing that comes up when you Google my brand name. I’ve turned down work opportunities and put on hold any future travel job plans to deal with lawyers, long distance phone calls, corporate executives and other such nonsense — all along feeling misled and patronized. This situation has been extremely confusing for not only myself, but also for participants in company’s marketing campaign who message me thinking that I am am part of the company.'"
Who are intellecutal property laws protecting again. Once again, they always protect those with enough lawyers to make them work.
This adecco page has twitter feed deal at the bottom and it's a riot to read right now. Apparently they haven't caught on that this story is getting a lot of attention yet.
https://www.adeccowaytowork.com/en/career-center
I'm gonna guess clicking through on the facebook deal next to it would lead to similar stuff.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Who are intellecutal property laws protecting again. Once again, they always protect those with enough lawyers to make them work.
Of course the laws protect those who worked hard to make the laws (the layers). If they didn't, it wouldn't be fair.
I was so ready to side with Adecco on this. It's really not a very original twist on 'Around the world in 80 days', and it's really just a limited time use by them. Then I saw they've applied a TM to the term. They made his whole point for him.
"Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey?"- Peter Gabriel
In other words, "we told him we'd buy out all the rights in exchange for a snickers bar and a firm handshake, but much to our surprise he turned our generous offer down, so it's his fault"?
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
It is only fair. If the citizens cared about their rights, they would hire lobbyists.
Why is anyone surprised? Adecco's entire business model is profiting off the labor of others.
Most of all,, we are sorry that we got caught stealing someone else's idea and then trademarking it.
I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they get up in the morning, that's as good as they're gonna feel
They turned the display of the twitter feed off on their page; it was filled with comments saying they stole the work and they were unethical. But you can still enjoy the hate here: https://twitter.com/search?q=AdeccoUSA&src=typd
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Coke didn't invent soda, Slashdot didn't invent news aggregation and discussion.
What belongs to each of these companies is the NAMES they do business under
In order to know whether you're buying soda made by Coca-Cola or some other company, the law protects the Coke mark.
His mark is Around the World in 80 Jobs. It seems that employees of Arecco contacted Barr, thinking that he was part of the promotion. If their use of the Around the World in 80 Jobs mark confused their own employees, it could certainly confuse the public, making them think Barr was involved in the promotion.
Google the tort of passing off. It is not necessary for a trademark to be registered for it to be legally defendable.
God what a smug lawyered-up non-apology. It is all about deflecting blame and nothing about actually accepting responsibility. Hell, by the end they are practically blaming the victim for not only what they did to him, but for hurting his own cause. It is hard to imagine a more arrogant response.
Do they honestly think such crap will do anything other than fan the flames higher? Does this shit work on anyone?
These days you only have the rights that you can afford to defend.
He is not required to register a trademark. The only requirement is that he use it in commerce. Registered trademarks have stronger protections, but an unregistered trademark is still protected.