[thelist] Aimster must give up domain to AOL
Erik Mattheis
gozz at gozz.com
Mon May 21 14:28:40 CDT 2001
>Aimster works *with* AIM. It's basically a plugin. It doesn't
>compete... nothing like that. In fact, I'd say it promotes it. You
>can't use Aimster without AIM. *shrug* It's almost like reaming all
>the "buddy icon" sites out there.
>
>> Like if the founders last name or initials are AIM or there was any
>> other good reason for the choice of the name, I would indeed think
>> it horrible, but from reading that article that doesn't seem to be
>> the case.
>
>Now that you know why it has "AIM" in the name, what do you think?
It's up to the trademark holder when they decide to enforce the use
of their trademark. They might not see buddy icon sites as being
detrimental to their business, whereas they might see Aimster as such.
I would be uncomfortable with someone telling me "If you're going to
exercise your rights in situation A, then you must also exercise your
rights is situations B-Z as well."
Don't get me wrong, I'm terrified that all these huge entities are
merging and that the distinction between corporate America and the
current executive administration of my country is blurry at best. But
taking into consideration the reason a entity wanted to enforce their
right to the exclusive use of their trademark goes against the
fundamental concept of what a trademark is. So speculating on that
reason doesn't make a lot of sense to me ...
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