Pirate Bay Logo Hijacked by Thumbdrive Maker
Pirate Bay Logo Hijacked by Thumbdrive Maker
Posted 11/16/2009 at 6:25pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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We all know how important brand recognition is. A Swedish maker of USB drives, Sandryds Handel AB, is showing how acutely aware of that they are by commandeering a very well known logo: that of The Pirate Bay. The company plans to offer a series of USB drives bearing the logo. That by itself isn’t actually illegal or cause for concern. The Pirate Bay logo is intentionally not registered so that it may be used freely.
It all goes off the tracks when Sandryds Handel AB decided to register the logo themselves. This would limit the ways others could use it. “It will be turned over quite easily; it’s a preliminary registration that is being ‘tested’,” said former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde.
The Pirate Bay is seeking to have the decision by the patent office annulled. If the Pirate Bay still has the sway online that is once did, Sandryds Handel might want to rethink this course of action.
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samson77
May 31, 2011 at 10:30pm
The game community forum to discuss new upcoming video games, user movies, gaming development and platforms.Thanks for sharing the informative post. Regards. Roy - domain registration
Thursday
November 16, 2009 at 8:05pm
A site that is basically used to circumvent copywrite would itself be a victim of infringement...
Then again I guess it's not really irony as TPB didn't register their logo because they wanted to keep it free for everybody to use as they see fit. I can't see how Sandryds Handel would ever be given copywrite ownership of something they can't even remotely claim to have ownership of.
gendoikari1
November 16, 2009 at 8:30pm
They could have registered their logo and put it under something like a copyleft license or the GNU GPL (or something like that).
nekollx
November 17, 2009 at 9:34am
the funny thing is TPB can just claim "prior art"
It's hard to copyright something that has been in public consumption for ages...
or even a couple years.
See: Netbook
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