[ok-scotland] Fwd: Fwd: Barcamp Glasgow/in principle discussion

Sun Jun 13 09:57:36 UTC 2010

One more v quick thing, for the record only:

 by suggesting a lawyer i was not thinking 'litigation', but should the
'culture' message not
get anywhere,  lawyers tend to be able to find the right arguments (in this
case the de facto trademark argument)

I agree there are too few decent lawyers around (and one of the reasons why
I will continue to study jurisprudence, to defend
myself from bad /would be lawyers all around the world)

from a related conversation:

I am not going to argue the point about de facto trademarks here, :-)
 however a trademark does not need to be registered
to exist its just more tedious to protect

http://www.ufficiobrevetti.it/en/trademarks/trademark_home.htm

not sure what that would turn out in terms of copyleft either

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>> On 12/06/2010 13:36, Paola Di Maio wrote:
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>> Dear all
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>>  I heard with interest about  the forthcoming Barcamp Glasgow (I think I
>> took part briefly in Barcamp Edinburgh at Informatics one year go or so)
>> , but have not seen the entry in the barcamp.org website, nor any
>> discussion about the organisation
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>>  Details here
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>> http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/interactivescotland/is-events/is-events-details.aspx?itemId={39CC350E-1618-4E4D-ADF1-E1DA6485A463}<http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/interactivescotland/is-events/is-events-details.aspx?itemId=%7B39CC350E-1618-4E4D-ADF1-E1DA6485A463%7D>
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>>  I  probably wont be able to attend personally on that day
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>>  While I do not have a problem that Scottish Enteprises is planning to
>> bring in some firms to talk, and helping to promote the barcamp culture
>> I am worried that this is not at all Barcamp, and nor it is a ' barcamp
>> style' event, in the sense that there is no mechanism for
>> open participation (not an apparent one),  It doesnt feel right to me.
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>>  There is now wiki where people can enter their talks, yadadiyada
>> you know the score
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>>  I would be glad if someone (preferably a lawyer)  could talk to the
>> organisers and inform them politely  of what a Barcamp is, and that although
>> Barcamp is not officially trademarke afaik), it would not be good  practice
>> to use a very well known 'brand name'  to organise somethiing radically
>> different in its core principle
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>>  I ll be happy to have an offlist (or onlis?t) discussion with anyone
>> willing to look into it further, and suggest the appropriate course of
>> action
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>>  PDM
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