Comments on: Second Life Miss Universe Pageant Trumped by Real Life Trademark Holder, Linden Lab Assists

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[...] the karmic hand he was dealt by the Trump organization enforcing their copyright on anything Miss Universe wasn’t strong enough to humble Mills, as not only was there a backlash against the impartial [...]

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By: Ariel Allera

Ariel Allera — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:14:05 +0000

I think the only credible international pageants are Miss Universe and Miss Earth. I find Miss International too boring to watch or its delayed telecast sadly unreasonable to look forward to. Watching it feels like attending a JS Prom where every delegate simply sashays in her evening gown (after parading in her national costume). The stage is dull and the production predictable: there’s no element of thrill. Almost always, though, their judging is tasteful. On the other hand, I think Miss World is too conservative, not to mention old school, although their stage is usually splendid. However, watching it live feels like watching a Grammy Awards Night (and I bet you know what I mean). It’s too dragging, much like the Miss International presentation. What’s worse with Miss World is that most of the time their results seem rigged for political purposes. Sometimes I don’t understand why Julia Morley has to sit amongst the judges every year, whilst in Miss Universe Donald Trump couldn’t care less about how his hired judges size up every delegate and come up with the winner at the end of the night. Of course, there are times when a winner seems to have been pre-conceived by both the organizers and the judges, but then again, Miss Universe is still obviously much more credible than the other two. Miss Universe production cum presentation has always been consistent with its sophisticated and glamorous, exciting and thrilling approach to both its audiences and televiewers. In a nutshell, the Miss Universe choreography is indisputably spectacular—from the opening number down to the winner’s crowning moment. Anyhow, as a Filipino, I can’t help taking pride in the fact that despite our economic condition here, we are still able to produce the second best international beauty pageant, the Miss Earth. Wouldn’t you be proud too… that despite how poor and pathetic we seem to other so-called first-world countries, we’re able to bring about such a high-end event, a gathering of the world’s most beautiful ladies vying for a title that comes with a responsibility to help make our world a better place to live in? If Miss Universe or Miss World are able to put up with a grand presentation of their official candidates, it’s because they’re being organized by two of the world’s most opulent or powerful countries (the U.S. and the U.K.). Of course, they have all the resources—ways and means— and they have connections with gigantic companies to back them up in the name of presentors, sponsors, benefactors, rah-rah-rah. What a shame on Japan for their lousy Miss International preparation. It didn’t hurt a bit when this year’s Miss World wasn’t seen telecast live in the Philippines. But it will definitely break our hearts if we Filipinos will stop supporting our very own Miss Earth or be deprived of watching Miss Universe pageant live on the boobtube.

ariel allera
ariel_allera@yahoo.com

By: larryr

larryr — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:38 +0000

and all totally expected.
why would it be any other way?;)

c3.

By: Doubledown Tandino

Doubledown Tandino — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:38:07 +0000

I find this intriguing. Simply very interesting.
Minsky’s SLART vs LL,
Playboy enforces their TM inworld,
There was that furnature dude that came in proclaiming you’ll receive a pardon if you trash the fake ripoffs,
Those are some examples of restrictions…

meanwhile, coke, on the opposite end has decided to donate their logo to all of SL as common use.

I just find all this fascinating.
Mainly, because RL companies I think all in all are starting to realize they need to protect their IPs inside of virtual worlds…. but I think at the same time, RL companies may be fine with the free publicity, meanwhile others will disapprove of the false representation.

All very interesting stuff.

By: trademark

trademark — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:27:50 +0000

It’s kind of crazy how much real life and the virtual worlds are coming together. Pretty soon, there won’t be any distinction!

By: Brandon Brown

Brandon Brown — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:36:13 +0000

Perhaps it’s time to codify a DMCA-like formal takedown procedure for trademarks, a la Tiffany & Co. v. EBay.

This letter seems incredibly casual, and in stark contrast to a letter that an OSP sends to an alleged copyright infringer, which usually at least mentions the idea of a fair use defense and the right to send a counter-takedown notice.

What if Miss. SL Universe was really just a parody of the real thing, commenting on and poking fun at the pageant system? Hardly seems right that rather than having a right to assert some sort of trademark fair use defense and get the material put back up, the alleged TM infringer has his profile edited and is just politely asked not to continue use.

Ben, I suspect you intend to keep your source confidential, but do you know if this was just a “contestant” in the “pageant,” or has the entire SL “franchise” has been shut down? I recall this contest being rather large in SL.