pdblake opened this issue on Apr 21, 2005 ยท 57 posts
DarrenUK posted Thu, 21 April 2005 at 2:21 PM
I agree that this Mike Watso person and ebay have been unfair by suspending your account without hearing your side. However after reading about similar cases in the UK press a few years ago, it doesn't surprise me. Here's an explanation as to why this may have happened. Although the words "Poser" and "Store" are not copyrighted, the fact that you are using the words in the name of your site, to sell products that are in some way related to, but not created by Curious Labs the makers of Poser means that you are using the word "Poser" in the context of the name of the program, which IS registered. This could seem misleading for some people.If you had named your site something else and used those words in a way on your site such as "my poser store" or "my poser products" (indicating that they are something that you have created), they probably wouldn't have been able to do what they did. This is why lots of companies register multiple domain names for both their company and products, to stop variations of their name or products being used. McDonalds tried to take someone in Scotland to court for having a burger place called MacDonalds, despite the difference in spelling and the fact that the owner's name was MacDonald. Some companies deliberately try to trade off another companies name, which unfortunately comes back to kick innocent merchants in the ar*e "when they are tarred with the same brush" One of the main reasons I use my full name here at Renderosity etc despite that fact that most people shorten it, is that if I started trading Poser stuff under the name DAZ UK, I'd probably have DAZ on my back for the same reason.
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