Sweet fancy Moses, I am tired

[cleolinda]

Who returned to 600 comment alerts in her inbox? I DID, I DID!

So mostly, I dealt with trial news today. For those of you who wanted more context for JKR's testimony, the Leaky Cauldron has about as thorough a writeup as you can get without recording devices, although Melissa has had to recuse herself as of today because one of her emails got used

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[duncanatrix]

Oh, and I meant to tell you that if you want to sell some stuff, you ought to make t-shirts or something via Cafepress. Unless you already have a store. In which case, I really want a shirt that says "A revolution without Dance Dance Revolution is not worth having." /end

[foresthouse]

She has a store! And...I can't remember what it's called.

Wait...here it is: http://www.cafepress.com/m15mcharity

The stuff there now is for charity, though, not for her own $$$

...I would love that on a shirt. HEE.

[cleolinda]

Isn't DDR trademarked, though? I don't think I could use a quote containing it.

[foresthouse]

I'd have to look into this question more if you actually wanted to consider using it, but at least regarding trademark infringement, if you're not using it to describe a product and if there's no likelihood of confusion, I *think* you could actually use it (perhaps with the "TM" symbol just in case) without trademark infringement. Because, see, trademark law protects against someone else using a mark that's been developed to distinguish one product in order to sell or promote another, unrelated product. Essentially protects a company or person from others trying to cash in on their trademark in order to sell something or similar. But again, I would have to review some law stuff first, since I haven't done trademark study in about 2 years. :) And it might raise other issues.

[cleolinda]

It's just always been my Better Safe Than Sorry policy not to use any names that recognizably belong to someone else in merchandise. I'm probably being too safe, but it's easier that way sometimes.

[foresthouse]

Well it's not a bad policy; and I could see where the Dance Dance Revolution thing might cause problems, so sticking with things like, "Outta my way, PLEBE." or something is safer. :)