Response from Pitchfork Regarding Tumblr Subdomain

Post by steve19 » Thu, Mar 04, 2010, 1:50 PM UTC

pyre wrote: post #18

steve19 wrote: post #16

Correct me if I am wrong, but you cannot trademark the name of an everyday object, such as a pitchfork, and then have rights to any use of the word in a domain. So do they have the rights to pitchfork.wordpress.com, pitchfork.heroku.com and pitchfork.github.com ? Of course not. This is not about IP, this is about a company doing their friends a favor. I will now stay away from tumblr. If I cease posting for a few mon…

> Correct me if I am wrong, but you cannot trademark the name of an everyday object, such as a pitchfork, and then have rights to any use of the word in a domain. You can trademark the name of an everyday object. See 'Apple' computers vs 'Apple' the music label. Now they only have a trademark dispute is someone in their industry has the apple.com or apple.github.com or whatever (e.g. if Microsoft or Dell registered a…