[Opensim-dev] LindenLab tightens policy on Trademarks

[James Stallings II]

This is really a non-issue. As was pointed out earlier in this thread, words
cannot be trademarked; they're copyrighted. Only a specific instance of a
hippo may be trademarked; only a specific graphic representation of the
concept of 'grid' can be trademarked. Even domain names are safe unless they
incorporate the phrase 'Second Life' or 'Linden Labs'.

As we are not a corporate entity (at least, not yet), we have no particular
need of registering trademarks.

Cheers,
James/daTwitch

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Dr Scofield <DrScofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net>
wrote:

> John Ward wrote:
> > I kind of like the "verse" of metaverse in place of grid.  It's short
> > and lends itself well to names like OSVerse, CentralVerse,
> > OpenSim.Verse.AssetServer.exe, and etc.  The different verses are all
> > parts of the larger metaverse.
> >
> >
> hey, cool idea. like that. :-)
>
>    cheers,
>    dr scofield
>
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