The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark • Hacker News Board

Re: The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

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Post by wongarsu » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 1:55 PM UTC

blitzar wrote: post #46

unpopularopp wrote: post #41

Well the queen of Twitch has spoken so it will be sorted out https://twitter.com/imane/status/1460818399374692355

She is threatening to collect her donations somewhere else. Brutal.

Putting her money where her mouth is. And Pokimane does have some pull in the streaming community, so this could hurt Streamlabs quite a bit financially

Re: The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #59

oefrha wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very few non-corporate FOSS projects would have the funds to file a trademark, especially an international one considering one can be infringed from anywhere around the world. And time spent on filing would be time not advancing the actual project, unless a lawyer is hired, which makes it even more expensive. Even fewer would have the resources to actually pursue legal action if the trademark is infringed upon. This…

IANAL. Trademarks don't need to be registered and many trademarks simply exist through active use. However, your second paragraph is the key one. While trademarks don't need to be registered (and, in any case, trademark registrations are mostly on a country by country basis) it's pretty much on you to spend the money to defend your trademark if you want to do so. No one's going to do it for you.

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Re: The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

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Post by frankfrankfrank » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 2:34 PM UTC

It's one of the biggest issues I have with the public/open source community; it is too naive and permissive in dealing with corporate entities (and government entities, for that matter) for whom there simply is no such thing as spirit and the only thing that matters to their lawyers and corporate psychopath executives is the letter and what they can get away with or even what resistance to abuse they have the power/money to crush.

Re: The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

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Post by fortyseven » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 2:38 PM UTC

hsn915 wrote: post #28

I legit thought OBS and Streamlabs where connected

Honestly, I had no idea what the relationship was. I just assumed it was all kosher and there was a connection between them that was brokered long before I started messing around with streaming. Luckily I thought OBS was the better long-term bet and uninstalled the other one after comparing.

Re: The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

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Post by thomcano » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 2:39 PM UTC

This is some big news, I do appreciate that this is on the front page.

Re: The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

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Post by Smar » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 2:40 PM UTC

account42 wrote: post #42

Smar wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nowadays its name is just Open Build System :)

Unfortunately it still is mostly the openSUSE build service in practice. I wish canonical switched Launchpad's PPA system to OBS or at least added automatic rebuilds on dependency changes to their own system.

Well, I use OBS to build Debian packages at work. But I guess companies want to have their own shiny thing, even if it is inferior to other solutions.

Re: The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

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Post by ComputerGuru » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 2:52 PM UTC

unpopularopp wrote: post #41

Well the queen of Twitch has spoken so it will be sorted out https://twitter.com/imane/status/1460818399374692355

Who is she?

Re: The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

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Post by unpopularopp » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:00 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #67

unpopularopp wrote: post #41

Well the queen of Twitch has spoken so it will be sorted out https://twitter.com/imane/status/1460818399374692355

Who is she?

Arguably the biggest Twitch streamer and the face of Twitch used in a lot of ads and promos. Also a Streamlabs partner, so good for her to call them out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokimane

Re: The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

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Post by ComputerGuru » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:02 PM UTC

unpopularopp wrote: post #68

ComputerGuru wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who is she?

Arguably the biggest Twitch streamer and the face of Twitch used in a lot of ads and promos. Also a Streamlabs partner, so good for her to call them out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokimane

Oh cool, she’s Moroccan! Thanks for the link.

Re: The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

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Post by tombert » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:05 PM UTC

You know, I'll admit that this is ignorance on my end, but I honestly thought that Streamlabs was the owner of OBS, in that OBS was just an internal project that they open sourced.

Clearly I'm wrong but I doubt I'm the only person who thought that. Seems like they're being douchebags if they're just taking the offensive and filing predatory trademarks.