Comments on: Linden Lab, Avatar ‘Victor Vezina,’ Philip Rosedale, and Mitch Kapor Sued Over SLART Trademark

By: Baeric

Baeric — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:56:23 +0000

SL are in the public domain. If SL is claimed by Second Life, then people with the names where the initials are SL would need to pay Royalty or licence to Linden Research. That is a ridiculous outcome. Linden Research should not register this as a trademark. Reminds of Microsoft trying to register “Where do you want to go today?” as a slogan… oops… need to watch that [SL]ogan… I will need to pay licence fees soon…

By: AldoManutio Abruzzo

AldoManutio Abruzzo — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:19:05 +0000

Wake up folks …if you don’t understand why this important and why Richard Minsky is the one who has been harmed here, then you stillthink that SL is a game …

By: rubaiyat

rubaiyat — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:10:18 +0000

I am curious because I have no way of finding out:

Was SL (the two letters by themself) registered as a trademark by Linden? If so when? If this was an issue shouldn’t SLART(tm) have been challenged when it was applied for or could it be undone?

Minsky is fighting the good fight here, in fact he is taking an unravelling all the bs that people in SL complained about when the trademark policy hit.

If it is okay for Linden to have this policy (their new trademark policy and the whole inSL thing) then it is okay for a man in NYC to exercise his rights over his own registered trademark, yes?

There was some question as to why Linden blinked on this policy, and I think it could easily have been Minsky.

By: Joe Gabaeff

Joe Gabaeff — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:11:58 +0000

Im not sure how prevalent the use of SLArt is in Second Life, but couldn’t that mark be considered generic under TM law? Even classifying it as descriptive is generous – all of this hoopla about sluts, farts, sleeping, and tarts is garbage (but funny – never ceases to amaze me what people will write for the courts). Do artists in Second Life refer to their art as SLArt?

By: Richard Rowlands

Richard Rowlands — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:53:55 +0000

Lame. This sounds like a story out of The Onion.

Minsky’s use of “SLART” is an intentional publicity grab and whoring for attention (nevermind sluts with farts), and he knows how dastardly and scheming all this is!

By: MilosZMilosZ

MilosZMilosZ — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:13:23 +0000

I think the lab will bend. No one would have guessed that the Lab would have cowtowed to Bragg….but they did.

By: Ric Mollor

Ric Mollor — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:50:11 +0000

Mr. Minsky’s attempts to contact Victor Vezina could of better effected by transfer of a notecard created within the Second Life world. When documents of this type are transferred from user to user the sending user receives a return notice indicating the recipient’s acceptance or refusal of the item.

Additionally, an accepted notecard will appear as a popup type window and must be minimized or closed to continue effective navigation of the Second Life world.

By: Michael Donnelly

Michael Donnelly — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:25:57 +0000

I’m sure the court will be enlightened by Mr. Minsky’s urbandictionary.com-esque presentation of SLART’s etymology.

Slut + fart? *boggle*

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