Posts Tagged ‘trademark’
Trademark Guidelines: Grace Period Finishes Today
So you’re still using things like Second Life Herald or Sweet Second Life? Well, take care. Linden Lab’s “grace period” finishes today, as Tateru Nino kindly reminds us on her article on Massively. The popular SLprofiles.com already switched their name to ProfileSLive.com after an internal voting for new names. Other, undoubtely, will follow shortly — or face takedown notices from the nice lawyers of our beloved company that runs “our…
Splitting Hairs Over Trademarks
Laurap Linden thankfully replied on the Official Second Life® Blog to our plea for clarification on some of the more subtle issues of Linden Lab®’s policy on the trademark usage. In fact, the most important question was not exactly about the trademark usage; after all, the complete guidelines for their usage are spelt out on their Second Life Brand Center. Any lawyer should be able to read through all of…
Going on strike…
Shortly following this post, my blog is joining the 3-day strike as a protest against the lack of clarification on some of the issues regarding the new guidelines on the trademark usage. Notice that Robin Linden’s Office Hours are going to be later today (11 AM SLT at her place in Ambleside) and she might have some answers from the questions placed last week. Depending on those answers, the strike…
Second Life® Bloggers Require Clarification
Dear Linden Lab®, Your recent change of policy regarding the usage of your trademarks — Second Life®, Linden Lab®, and others registered by Linden Research Inc. — will effectively prevent the operation of the very vibrant community of bloggers, forum posters, websites, community portals, and even 3rd party services, that have provided Linden Lab® with links and driving traffic to your blog, and raising brand awareness for free for your…
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