From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 20:21:24 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 20:21:21 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout2.nyroc.rr.com (mailout2-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F7EB37B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 20:21:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from rochester.rr.com (roc-24-95-194-80.rochester.rr.com [24.95.194.80]) by mailout2.nyroc.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA10658 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:17:24 -0500 (EST) Sender: dheller@mailout2.nyroc.rr.com Message-ID: <3A554BBF.523935D4@rochester.rr.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:21:19 -0500 From: "David M. Heller" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please change this References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Andrews wrote: > > TO: WEBMASTER OR PERSON WHO CONTROLS YOUR WEBSITE > > It has come to our attention that you are using the term "Livecast" on the > page referenced below, and possibly other pages. > > http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2000/freebsd-multimedia/20000123.freebs > d-multimedia.html > > Livecast is a registered trademark that is owned by Livecast, Inc. We would > like to ask you to please change Livecast to a generic or industry term such > as "webcast" or "live webcast." > > Although this might seem like a minor matter to you, it is important to us > that the Livecast trademark be understood by the public in an accurate > manner. Your page gets referenced by search engines which can confuse the > public. We have had to continually police the use of Livecast on the > Internet, including recently filing a trademark infringement lawsuit in > federal court against CNN/SI. > > Please change this page(s) on your website, and if you would email me back > when the change is completed, I would appreciate it. If you also re-submit > your website to the major search engines, then that will ensure that the > public gets up-to-date content from your site when they do searches. > > Sincerely, > Chris Andrews > > Chris Andrews > President > Livecast, Inc > 300 Third St., Suite 5 > Los Altos, CA 94022 > phone 650-559-9975 > fax 650-559-9974 > chris@livecast.com > Livecast is a VentureMakers Company > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I think "LiveCast" is a pretty generic term already I would almost say for sure one of the big three networks(ABC NBC CBS) used that term during live news broadcasts a few years back before anybody even knew what a "Personal Computer" was! I suppose also If I type the word Kleenex I will get sued for a millon dollars also GIVE ME A BREAK!! Personally I think it should be against the law to copyright generic terms anyway. Anybody with common sense knows the word Livecast is generic just my 2 cents worth Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message