Trademark and the Scratch online community

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Oops, someone already said that, sorry.

FruityGrrl

I read the whole thing! That was cool how you all actually took time to think about the situation and create a solution!

lol90

Coming soon, Trademark will be trademarked and copyrighted. Be careful, man!

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I say we shouldn`t change the title, just to protest the ridiculousness of the trademark holder`s request!

SPAsonicspeed1

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9kiwi9

PhirripSyrrip wrote:
andrewjcole wrote:
getamac404 wrote:
Yea, remember what happened to a Pac-Man project?
Also, why “Scratch” and not “Scratch™”? Shouldn't Scratch be a trademark too? (and, I'm wondering if MIT is a trademark.)
What happened to the Pac-Man project?
Have a read of this: http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Pac-Man_Project_Taken_Off_the_Scratch_Website_by_NAMCO

Didn't think you could get worse than the pacman project issue but now…..

I am never doing ANYTHING associated with Namco again.

MickeyBlack

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FrozenFIsh13

How odd…

Happiny-64

Please say you're kidding.

9kiwi9

Coming soon to everywhere, ™™(trademark™)!

MrLog

Wow, that's ridiculous.
The only reason that I'm genuinely capable of thinking of for someone to do something as childish as this is if it was some sort of joke. And it's a multimillion dollar company, so it wasn't. Companies as big as that should know better than this.

9kiwi9

lego_ninja wrote:
Wow! That means Scratch is really famous! XD So famous that a million dollar company views Scratch as competition! lol!

Amazing work, Scratch Team.

rose08

AshSpringerSpaniel wrote:
I will avoid using trademarks on Scratch as best as I can.

rose08 wrote:
I totally agree with you. I think that EVERY one should avoid using trademarks on Scratch as best as they could.

Last edited by rose08 (March 20, 2014 21:17:32)

they-might-be-cats

MrLog wrote:
Wow, that's ridiculous.
The only reason that I'm genuinely capable of thinking of for someone to do something as childish as this is if it was some sort of joke. And it's a multimillion dollar company, so it wasn't. Companies as big as that should know better than this.

Yes. They should have better things to do then this.

Alexis555

The_Grits wrote:
Wow… this would make for a funny newspaper article… “Multimillion dollar complex demands name change of a Children's Online Studio” XD

Omg fell out of chair laughing

SplashHero

I don't think it is necessary for a multi-million dollar corporation to try and take legal action against kids who are trying to learn how to program animations on Scratch… But people will do anything to protect their trademark, even if there is a blatantly obvious difference between a Scratch Studio and a large business.

NoxSpooth

So they really thought the name of a collection of projects in an educational website would interfere with their business?

Gee.

Last edited by NoxSpooth (March 20, 2014 21:35:47)

Slimesmack

Dragonturnip wrote:
I have a question. I made a project called Idea Storm, but that is already something to do with Dell computers. Will I get sued or something?

Technically they are liable to sue you if that's the name of one of their products/trademarks. I would rename it just to be safe.

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Last edited by epictoothpaste (March 20, 2014 21:39:38)

epictoothpaste

9kiwi9 wrote:
PhirripSyrrip wrote:
andrewjcole wrote:
getamac404 wrote:
Yea, remember what happened to a Pac-Man project?
Also, why “Scratch” and not “Scratch™”? Shouldn't Scratch be a trademark too? (and, I'm wondering if MIT is a trademark.)
What happened to the Pac-Man project?
Have a read of this: http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Pac-Man_Project_Taken_Off_the_Scratch_Website_by_NAMCO

Didn't think you could get worse than the pacman project issue but now…..
I am never doing ANYTHING associated with Namco again.

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