The big PC maker's online storefronts have a consumer and business section. Your milage may vary but the business section of say, Dell or Lenovo, tilts towards good build quality, OS flexibility, and less crapware. Finding a Win7 machine is no problem at all.
Amazon sees that the trademark applies to "board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card games and paint, sold therewith" Another mark applies to "video computer games; computer software for playing games".
Has Games Workshop provided evidence that this product (a book) is infringing? No. Therefore take no action.
The suggestion that this is complicated favors the bullies abusing the law (Games Workshop) and the companies that roll over on their users (Amazon). Don't let them make this about the trademark system, which is pretty straightforward and pro-consumer. Games Workshop could not get a trademark on Space Marine in books. Amazon should care about this.
Since they copied it directly from previous works, and it is a term currently in use in various places, can they actually trademark it?
No. Trademarks are not like copyright - there is a formal approval process, though "first use in commerce" also counts somewhat. Games Workshop was granted a 1987 trademark on the term "space marine" in "board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card games and paint, sold therewith." They have a second trademark for "video computer games; computer software for playing games".
This trademark is suspect, but it's now law. However, they have no protection for, say, novels or ebooks. Which makes their takedown pure bullying.
USPTO data below.
Word Mark SPACE MARINE Goods and Services IC 028. US 022. G & S: board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card games and paint, sold therewith. FIRST USE: 19870900. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19871000 Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING Serial Number 74186534 Filing Date July 19, 1991 Current Basis 1A Original Filing Basis 1A Published for Opposition November 23, 1993 Registration Number 1922180 Registration Date September 26, 1995 Owner (REGISTRANT) GAMES WORKSHOP LIMITED CORPORATION UNITED KINGDOM Willow Road, Lenton Eastwood Nottingham NG7 2W5 UNITED KINGDOM Attorney of Record Naresh Kilaru Type of Mark TRADEMARK Register PRINCIPAL Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR) 20051125. Renewal 1ST RENEWAL 20051125 Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
Word Mark SPACE MARINE Goods and Services (CANCELLED) IC 002. US 006 011 016. G & S: [paints, namely, water based acrylic paints for artists] IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: video computer games; computer software for playing games
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING Serial Number 75010236 Filing Date October 25, 1995 Current Basis 44E Original Filing Basis 44D Published for Opposition July 8, 1997 Change In Registration CHANGE IN REGISTRATION HAS OCCURRED Registration Number 2100767 Registration Date September 30, 1997 Owner (REGISTRANT) Games Workshops Limited CORPORATION UNITED KINGDOM WILLOW ROAD LENTON, NOTTINGHAM UNITED KINGDOM NG72 2WS Attorney of Record Naresh Kilaru Priority Date September 20, 1995 Prior Registrations 1922180 Type of Mark TRADEMARK Register PRINCIPAL Affidavit Text SECT 15. PARTIAL SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR) 20080422. Renewal 1ST RENEWAL 20080422 Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
Why arent each and every one of you calling them out for it?
Because I already pay an Internet tax, to AT&T. I've been paying it to them for 10 years, and despite a whirlwind of technical advancement they haven't improved my service or lowered my price in a decade. In fact, my home service is more constrained and monitored than it was ten years ago.
California already does some of this, via microstamps on firing pins. But tracking guns doesn't fix the 300M guns in circulation. Bullet tracking does.
I have a license plate on my car. This hasn't prevented me from using it.
Gun safes might. Pair that with a 10-rounds-a-month rule for off-range ammo purchases, and it would provide a barrier. Meanwhile non-psychotic gun crime just got a lot harder to pull off.
The first is bullet IDs -- you pack the propellant with very small ID tagged glitter. Bullet fires, glitter covers the ground. Crime scene people carry equipment to find and trace the ID numbers. This has been proof-of-concepted years ago.
The second is tracking for ammo sales. You buy ammo? It gets logged, every damn bullet.
The third is liability for your ammo. If you own ammo, you are liable for the results. Regular gun owners get an ammo safe, which is cheap and sensible precaution in any case. If you're a trafficker? You now have a problem.
Important to note: ammo has a shelf life of a few years. Within a decade, culpability for gun crimes could be much more transparent.
Context matters. Having lived in a mountain town, we went to our 2-screen cinema all the time. I saw some truly unlikely movies, because there weren't that many other options to get out of the house in the evening. Now that I'm in a city, I see a movie maybe once a year.
They won't. The Dems lean Hollywood, both by voting district and campaign funding. The hope would be that the GOP could serve as a useful opposition party on this issue. Apparently not.
The position paper was vetted internally and approved along the orgs normal channels. Unless by "higher up leadership" you mean the lobbyists -- they were surprised, that's true.
He worked an institution that was supposed to inform debate. He was canned because some debates are not allowed.
Actually, it doesn't. That's a powerful incentive to start companies and build products, even if the results get incorporated (or not) into a dreadnaught like Google after four years. Venture funding banks on this, and the freely flowing spigot of VC money built most of the stuff I currently use.
GitHub allows creators to determine what license to publish under. The license is disclosed to downloaders. Some of it is under an open license. Some of it isn't.
"Is this code using a license compatible to my project?" is a pretty normal thing to ask before dropping something into your work.
Personally, I like having access to look at source on closed projects - projects I wouldn't otherwise have access to. You can learn stuff even if you don't copy/paste working code.
> Her friend comes over and wants a copy and she gives it to them thinking nothing of it.
In our company, we call that "lead gen" and seek to encourage it. In the attention economy, trading marginal costs (literally zero, in your example) in exchange for a referral is good business. Many of those referrals won't become customers. But for the ones who do, the cost-to-acquire-customer is again literally zero. It helps to have good branding and more than one product. But this isn't rocket science.
Why, I do declare, I do not understand how these charlatans wrongly associate SECESSION and RACE. As any son of the South knows, secession has always been an issue of states rights, with the Negro Question being a trivial, secondary concern...
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The important thing to remember is that if unregulated, industry would have fixed this eventually. Like, after we were all dead.
The big PC maker's online storefronts have a consumer and business section. Your milage may vary but the business section of say, Dell or Lenovo, tilts towards good build quality, OS flexibility, and less crapware. Finding a Win7 machine is no problem at all.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x230
It's not complicated. Trademark law is applicable here. Amazon gets letter about trademark. Amazon looks up the trademark in the database. It's here: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4008:7ndtqg.1.1
Play along!
Amazon searches for "space marine".
Amazon sees that the trademark applies to "board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card games and paint, sold therewith" Another mark applies to "video computer games; computer software for playing games".
Has Games Workshop provided evidence that this product (a book) is infringing? No. Therefore take no action.
The suggestion that this is complicated favors the bullies abusing the law (Games Workshop) and the companies that roll over on their users (Amazon). Don't let them make this about the trademark system, which is pretty straightforward and pro-consumer. Games Workshop could not get a trademark on Space Marine in books. Amazon should care about this.
Since they copied it directly from previous works, and it is a term currently in use in various places, can they actually trademark it?
No. Trademarks are not like copyright - there is a formal approval process, though "first use in commerce" also counts somewhat. Games Workshop was granted a 1987 trademark on the term "space marine" in "board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card games and paint, sold therewith." They have a second trademark for "video computer games; computer software for playing games".
This trademark is suspect, but it's now law. However, they have no protection for, say, novels or ebooks. Which makes their takedown pure bullying.
USPTO data below.
Word Mark SPACE MARINE
Goods and Services IC 028. US 022. G & S: board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card games and paint, sold therewith. FIRST USE: 19870900. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19871000
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 74186534
Filing Date July 19, 1991
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition November 23, 1993
Registration Number 1922180
Registration Date September 26, 1995
Owner (REGISTRANT) GAMES WORKSHOP LIMITED CORPORATION UNITED KINGDOM Willow Road, Lenton Eastwood Nottingham NG7 2W5 UNITED KINGDOM
Attorney of Record Naresh Kilaru
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR) 20051125.
Renewal 1ST RENEWAL 20051125
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
Word Mark SPACE MARINE
Goods and Services (CANCELLED) IC 002. US 006 011 016. G & S: [paints, namely, water based acrylic paints for artists]
IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: video computer games; computer software for playing games
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 75010236
Filing Date October 25, 1995
Current Basis 44E
Original Filing Basis 44D
Published for Opposition July 8, 1997
Change In Registration CHANGE IN REGISTRATION HAS OCCURRED
Registration Number 2100767
Registration Date September 30, 1997
Owner (REGISTRANT) Games Workshops Limited CORPORATION UNITED KINGDOM WILLOW ROAD LENTON, NOTTINGHAM UNITED KINGDOM NG72 2WS
Attorney of Record Naresh Kilaru
Priority Date September 20, 1995
Prior Registrations 1922180
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Affidavit Text SECT 15. PARTIAL SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR) 20080422.
Renewal 1ST RENEWAL 20080422
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
Why arent each and every one of you calling them out for it?
Because I already pay an Internet tax, to AT&T. I've been paying it to them for 10 years, and despite a whirlwind of technical advancement they haven't improved my service or lowered my price in a decade. In fact, my home service is more constrained and monitored than it was ten years ago.
I'm ready to try plan B.
All else being equal, I'd rather have a service provider that is legally accountable, however imperfectly, to the end users.
It's a tablet with a keyboard.
Gosh, being the most profitable company in the world sure is hard work! Why bother?
You can control wifi settings with location-aware software. At home or work? Wifi on. Anywhere else? Wifi defaults to off.
Example: http://www.twofortyfouram.com/product
California already does some of this, via microstamps on firing pins. But tracking guns doesn't fix the 300M guns in circulation. Bullet tracking does.
I have a license plate on my car. This hasn't prevented me from using it.
Gun safes might. Pair that with a 10-rounds-a-month rule for off-range ammo purchases, and it would provide a barrier. Meanwhile non-psychotic gun crime just got a lot harder to pull off.
The first is bullet IDs -- you pack the propellant with very small ID tagged glitter. Bullet fires, glitter covers the ground. Crime scene people carry equipment to find and trace the ID numbers. This has been proof-of-concepted years ago.
The second is tracking for ammo sales. You buy ammo? It gets logged, every damn bullet.
The third is liability for your ammo. If you own ammo, you are liable for the results. Regular gun owners get an ammo safe, which is cheap and sensible precaution in any case. If you're a trafficker? You now have a problem.
Important to note: ammo has a shelf life of a few years. Within a decade, culpability for gun crimes could be much more transparent.
Context matters. Having lived in a mountain town, we went to our 2-screen cinema all the time. I saw some truly unlikely movies, because there weren't that many other options to get out of the house in the evening. Now that I'm in a city, I see a movie maybe once a year.
[specific computing need] without relying on a 3rd-party app.
Do you want a computer or an appliance? If you want a computer, install some of that pesky "3rd-party" software and move on.
Feast your eyes on the rise of the pink, shopping-themed LEGO.
http://sinker.tumblr.com/post/14267087602/im-starting-to-think-lego-is-evil
Send you a message in exchange for money? That's what advertising IS.
They won't. The Dems lean Hollywood, both by voting district and campaign funding. The hope would be that the GOP could serve as a useful opposition party on this issue. Apparently not.
The position paper was vetted internally and approved along the orgs normal channels. Unless by "higher up leadership" you mean the lobbyists -- they were surprised, that's true.
He worked an institution that was supposed to inform debate. He was canned because some debates are not allowed.
Actually, it doesn't. That's a powerful incentive to start companies and build products, even if the results get incorporated (or not) into a dreadnaught like Google after four years. Venture funding banks on this, and the freely flowing spigot of VC money built most of the stuff I currently use.
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GitHub allows creators to determine what license to publish under. The license is disclosed to downloaders. Some of it is under an open license. Some of it isn't.
"Is this code using a license compatible to my project?" is a pretty normal thing to ask before dropping something into your work.
Personally, I like having access to look at source on closed projects - projects I wouldn't otherwise have access to. You can learn stuff even if you don't copy/paste working code.
> Her friend comes over and wants a copy and she gives it to them thinking nothing of it.
In our company, we call that "lead gen" and seek to encourage it. In the attention economy, trading marginal costs (literally zero, in your example) in exchange for a referral is good business. Many of those referrals won't become customers. But for the ones who do, the cost-to-acquire-customer is again literally zero. It helps to have good branding and more than one product. But this isn't rocket science.
Do you understand how insurance WORKS? You're supposed to make claims!
The insurers won't do prevention, even if it benefits them. Markets think in quarterly reports. Governments can take a longer view.
Why, I do declare, I do not understand how these charlatans wrongly associate SECESSION and RACE. As any son of the South knows, secession has always been an issue of states rights, with the Negro Question being a trivial, secondary concern...