Comments on: CouchSurfing trademark http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/03/05/couchsurfing-trademark/ The campaign for a truly open CouchSurfing organisation Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:00:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: aNTi-copyright http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/03/05/couchsurfing-trademark/comment-page-1/#comment-144167 aNTi-copyright Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:06:53 +0000 http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/?p=396#comment-144167 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrimethInc._N@!_license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrimethInc._N@!_license

]]> By: aNTi-copyright http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/03/05/couchsurfing-trademark/comment-page-1/#comment-144166 aNTi-copyright Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:01:40 +0000 http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/?p=396#comment-144166 check this one, i don't fully agree withit,but it's a beggining: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft check this one, i don’t fully agree withit,but it’s a beggining:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

]]> By: Heinrich Böll http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/03/05/couchsurfing-trademark/comment-page-1/#comment-95385 Heinrich Böll Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:39:42 +0000 http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/?p=396#comment-95385 "Einmischung ist die einzige Möglichkeit, realistisch zu bleiben." “Einmischung ist die einzige Möglichkeit, realistisch zu bleiben.”

]]> By: Amused http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/03/05/couchsurfing-trademark/comment-page-1/#comment-94486 Amused Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:02:48 +0000 http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/?p=396#comment-94486 Just stumbled across this site ... you guys still exist, after all this time? Making lots of progress getting CS to change its ways? LOL. Seems to me like you guys have totally wasted your time and made idiots of yourselves ... an utter failure from what I can tell. Just stumbled across this site … you guys still exist, after all this time?

Making lots of progress getting CS to change its ways? LOL.

Seems to me like you guys have totally wasted your time and made idiots of yourselves … an utter failure from what I can tell.

]]> By: Seb http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/03/05/couchsurfing-trademark/comment-page-1/#comment-94457 Seb Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:21:32 +0000 http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/?p=396#comment-94457 johnson, the reason you might want to do that is if you think that once trademarked, CS might try to use trademark law to prevent this website from using the term in its domain name. callum, I doubt this will be a fruitful avenue. you can't just rely on prior use of the term elsewhere; AFAIK you would need to show use of the term elsewhere *in a similar context*, e.g. a website doing the same sort of thing. johnson, the reason you might want to do that is if you think that once trademarked, CS might try to use trademark law to prevent this website from using the term in its domain name.

callum, I doubt this will be a fruitful avenue. you can’t just rely on prior use of the term elsewhere; AFAIK you would need to show use of the term elsewhere *in a similar context*, e.g. a website doing the same sort of thing.

]]> By: johnson http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/03/05/couchsurfing-trademark/comment-page-1/#comment-94361 johnson Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:11:45 +0000 http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/?p=396#comment-94361 why the heck would you want to block that? man, you really don't have anything better to do with your time? really... get a life! why the heck would you want to block that? man, you really don’t have anything better to do with your time?

really… get a life!

]]> By: Henrique http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/03/05/couchsurfing-trademark/comment-page-1/#comment-93884 Henrique Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:26:44 +0000 http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/?p=396#comment-93884 The term is usually associated with homeless people sleeping over at other people's places, in the media in US and Canada (west coast mainly). If you add a Google Alert for the term couchsurfing you can follow what kind of news is published :) The term is usually associated with homeless people sleeping over at other people’s places, in the media in US and Canada (west coast mainly). If you add a Google Alert for the term couchsurfing you can follow what kind of news is published :)

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