[Mageia-discuss] Google, yahoo, Hotmail and Flickr accounts

Tue Sep 21 23:43:10 CEST 2010

Le 2010-09-21 17:30, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+> 2010/9/21 atilla ontas<tarakbumba at gmail.com>:
+>> Im a lawyer, altough i dont know US or EU laws; i think it will be a
+>> legal problem like Mandrake name case. We should immediately need to
+>> consider this. Also even name is not a legal matter than domain names
+>> could be give us headache.
+>
+> Yes, it depends on the company and if there is an underpaid lawyer
+> around (no offense meant, atilla).
+>
+> A friend owning 'mobilix.de', dealing with Linux on mobile devices was
+> sued by the company which has the right son the famous "Asterix"
+> comics, where the second main character is named "Obelix". He lost the
+> case all the way up to the highest court although comics have nothing
+> in common with serious computer work (oh, ok, except UserFriendly)..
+
+This makes sense as "Mobilix" is a coined cartooned character that was 
+copywritten by the "Asterix" comic strip owners. However, I don't 
+believe that you can copyright dictionary words such as "mageia". You 
+can complain though if your use of the word "Mageia" is in conflict with 
+another use of "Mageia" that is close to your original registered use. 
+For example, if mageia.com were a software/OS company, then their 
+complaints may hold value. However, there is quite a difference between 
+a minerals company and a linux software company. You would have a hard 
+time convincing any person that Mageia.org was infringing and impacting 
+your business. For that matter, any going concern (business) these days 
+know that if you are going to set up a business and that you wish to use 
+the internet, you register the TLD's (top level domain names) at the 
+very outset. Therefore, if "mageia.com" were serious in using their web 
+presence, they would have gobbled up the mageia.com/net/org/localized 
+country name set. This was obviously not the case.
+
+Marc
+
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