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Originally Posted by Cindy Claveau  No, screw that. We've gone for years thinking it wasn't a big deal but now Linden Lab™ changed their minds. What's to keep Linden Lab™ from changing their minds™ again and claiming the individual letters "S"™ and "L"™, the phrase "The Grid"™ or "Your Imagination"™ ?
I'm going to err on the side of caution here. I will never again type the words "Second"™, "Life"™, " SL"™, "The Grid"™, "Philip Linden's bastard child"™ or "that steaming pile of dysfunctional horseshit"™ without covering my own ass™ with the trademark symbol.
Cindy Claveau™ |
Sigh.
Two words:
Fair, and use.
Specifically:
"Legal doctrine defines fair use of a trademark as the 'reasonable and good faith use of a descriptive term that is another's trademark to describe rather than to identify the user's goods, services or business'."
In other words, when you're writing about Second Life, you have no need of a TM.