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i guess you say this because of the bots? but it's ok for booth to be mod and ban people whenever he wants without reason? why are you all ok with this? i don't understand. makes sense to me to move to the other chat room where it won't happen. i agree that crazykitten would be the best mod.
Neither will nor boothead should be a mod, but boothead is a mod in the channel where people are actually chatting. Starting a channel where will is the mod isn't likely to change that.
but everyone could move to the new one and chat just the same. and remove the problem at the same time. i don't believe will being mod would be a problem.
Neither will nor boothead should be a mod, but boothead is a mod in the channel where people are actually chatting. Starting a channel where will is the mod isn't likely to change that. i don't believe will being mod would be a problem.
but everyone could move to the new one and chat just the same. and remove the problem at the same time.
Okay, so I'm aware that the chat feature on this forum doesn't work or is inactive. Every time I go to it I'm the only one in there.
Anyways, I found a link on the MMJ to headline 'roo 2011 facebook page to another chat through comcast. I was on it last night for like 30 min just talking about the black keys show in chitown and some good blues bars there.
Now the question: I sign into the room today and it immediately says, "You have been banned from the channel #inforoo."
I have no idea why I would have been banned from it. But is there another chat-room that everyone here uses or is this the main one?
Of course I'm assuming the chatroom location has been changed from #inforoo to #bonaroo since the original post. But if it was using the Mibbit client before when set to #inforoo chatroom, it's very possible another Mibbit user came in, did something wrong/bad and was banned, and depending on the ban set by the channel operator, could've banned all Mibbit users. Long story short, it was probably not an intentional ban directed at you.
I can't remember the last time someone complained about being banned. Everything was going along just hunky dory until today.
Yeah it's been pretty calm in #inforoo for quite some time which has been a nice change I used to get banned for no reason a lot along with willsfc, but it really hasn't been an issue at all recently. Seems like a huge misunderstanding, but then again I probably missed something, lol!
It's all about trademark people. Inforoo is a trademarked named, owned by Adam.
You can't just call your chatroom whatever you want, and then treat people like crap! I don't have a dog in the fight, I don't like chatrooms and rarely, if ever, use them!!
But if there is an entity on the net using the inforoo name, but the person running it is not permitted to use inforoo or is treating people in a manner unbecoming of inforoo, then something has to be done. Sorry, not trying to be a quack, but thats the way it is.
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It's all about trademark people. Inforoo is a trademarked named, owned by Adam.
You can't just call your chatroom whatever you want, and then treat people like crap! But if there is an entity on the net using the inforoo name, is treating people in a manner unbecoming of inforoo, then something has to be done. Sorry, not trying to be a quack, but thats the way it is.
You don't see why this is funny do you?
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Post by nodepression on Jan 6, 2011 10:43:09 GMT -5
It's not about the copyright infringement. It's you saying someone isn't acting becoming while representing inforoo, and then calling someone an "azzbag" and a "D!ck" on the actual board.
No, I really don't. I guess I have lost the childishness that allows one to see where trademark infringment is funny.
Please enlighten me. If you think I am off base, by all means say so.
But no, I really dont see the humor here.
Let me know if inforoo needs access to a copyright/trademark lawyer there are only 45000 of them in Nashville to choose from. I am pretty sure I could get a client to help for free.
Another interesting tidbit about trademark law, if you do not defend it then others will be allowed to use it without you having recourse. If you had a golf course called mini a-holes, and let your friend open up an unaffiliated golf course called mini a-holes, then a third party could do so as well and you would not be allowed to do anything about it.
noD - It doesn't matter if you are a business or a person, if you are making money, or doing it out of the goodness of your heart; you cannot use a trademarked name or image without the consent of the owner of the trademark.
It would be like you selling fried chicken out of your front yard and calling it KFC.
noD - It doesn't matter if you are a business or a person, if you are making money, or doing it out of the goodness of your heart; you cannot use a trademarked name or image without the consent of the owner of the trademark.
It would be like you selling fried chicken out of your front yard and calling it KFC.
Anyways
Actually, it would be like hosting a "KFC Discussion group" at your house to talk about fried chicken with your friends.
Before considering legal action, you should know that #inforoo has a crack team of lawyers on retainer. We retain the services of Barry Zuckerkorn, Leonard J. Crabs, Bob Loblaw, and Wayne Jarvis, Attorneys At Law
It does not matter, if a third party could prove they knew about your infringement and did not enforce it then they would be able to for instance make and sell inforoo shirts without inforoo being included.
noD - It doesn't matter if you are a business or a person, if you are making money, or doing it out of the goodness of your heart; you cannot use a trademarked name or image without the consent of the owner of the trademark.
It would be like you selling fried chicken out of your front yard and calling it KFC.
Anyways
Actually, it would be like hosting a "KFC Discussion group" at your house to talk about fried chicken with your friends.
Here we go...
Inforoo is the Trademarked name of an informational community-based website. KFC is the Trademarked name of a chain of fast food restaurants that are most famous for selling their brand of artery clogging chicken.
Hence, using the Inforoo name for another, non-affiliated, internet community would be like using the KFC name for an eatery not affiliated with KFC.
Actually, it would be like hosting a "KFC Discussion group" at your house to talk about fried chicken with your friends.
Here we go...
Inforoo is the Trademarked name of an informational community-based website. KFC is the Trademarked name of a chain of fast food restaurants that are most famous for selling their brand of artery clogging chicken.
Hence, using the Inforoo name for another, non-affiliated, internet community would be like using the KFC name for an eatery not affiliated with KFC.
A chatroom where inforoo members chat about inforoo/bonnaroo hardly provides the same service as an entire internet forum.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
At the end of the day nothing to see here the mods will either do something or not about it. I am sure they will be able to figure something out that is equitable to everyone in the end. To think they will not take trademark infringement under consideration though is pretty funny. This site gets something like 100k unique visitors a year, and I doubt they will jeopardize the future ability to move it somewhere else and make the money off the ads for the good of the board. Or do something that would give third parties a backdoor way to dilute the name without recourse.
We arent a message board. We aren't making money. We still come on inforoo.
What is the real problem with this?
Laches (pronounced /ˈlætʃɨz/) (f. French, lâchesse, lâches) [1] is an equitable defense, or doctrine. The person invoking laches is asserting that an opposing party has "slept on its rights," and that, as a result of this delay, that other party is no longer entitled to its original claim. Put another way, failure to assert one’s rights in a timely manner can result in a claim's being barred by laches. Laches is a form of estoppel for delay.
Being combative is no way to go.. Other than randomly banning Sang and Co. Boothead is pretty harmless and the chat is a friendly enviroment in general. It's nice to have a place to talk about bonnaroo. The chat was open before roo 2010 and has never been empty. So something is going right over there.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
We arent a message board. We aren't making money. We still come on inforoo.
What is the real problem with this?
Laches (pronounced /ˈlætʃɨz/) (f. French, lâchesse, lâches) [1] is an equitable defense, or doctrine. The person invoking laches is asserting that an opposing party has "slept on its rights," and that, as a result of this delay, that other party is no longer entitled to its original claim. Put another way, failure to assert one’s rights in a timely manner can result in a claim's being barred by laches. Laches is a form of estoppel for delay.