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I prefer it in French version: Sexe Entre Amis 1. It just sounds more sexy. 2. It avoids US Trademark issues. 3. Carlos Danger is an investor.
i wonder how it would be in Canadian version. (sorry, our Northern friends, just watched bit too much "How i met your mother" :)
Honestly, when you first heard of "Bang With Friends," would you have been surprised if it was yet another quality Zynga production? Even if you wouldn't have - "Bang With Friends" instantly connects with "Words With Friends" in my mind. This is a really unpopular and unexpected thing to say, but for once I don't think Zynga is in the wrong.
I didn't make the connection right away. I just think that if Zynga is in the right, then whoever owns Scrabble is too. Coming up with products that borrow from existing IP is their thing. Naturally, they are going to try to keep other mobile developers from doing the same.
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I don't believe Zynga has any obligation to provide standardized royalty licensing to any particular person or entity. Whether it's ok or not is entirely up to Zynga and their counsel.
Not that there's any coherent logic to IP law, but logically what's the difference between zero royalty paid (aka not protecting the trademark) and settling on a fixed-price perpetual royalty of negligible cost? It's so weird to me how in some areas of the law (criminal law, for instance) the "gray area" is embraced and fully considered, where in other areas (IP/business law) decisions seem to be so black-and-white.…
Copyright use to have similar sense (must apply, must renew).
Doesn't the infringement have to be in the same category as the trademark? A dating app seems quite far from games.
Honestly, when you first heard of "Bang With Friends," would you have been surprised if it was yet another quality Zynga production? Even if you wouldn't have - "Bang With Friends" instantly connects with "Words With Friends" in my mind. This is a really unpopular and unexpected thing to say, but for once I don't think Zynga is in the wrong.
Honestly, when you first heard of "Bang With Friends," would you have been surprised if it was yet another quality Zynga production? Even if you wouldn't have - "Bang With Friends" instantly connects with "Words With Friends" in my mind. This is a really unpopular and unexpected thing to say, but for once I don't think Zynga is in the wrong.
I didn't make the connection at all until today. I think it's because "Words" is a noun, and "Bang" is a verb. "[noun] With Friends" gets represented as a completely different thing in my mind than "[verb] With Friends" (i.e. the latter is an action, the former is language nonsense).
First they laugh at you, then they sue you, then you win. BWF is a funny name, leverages the WWF name more than a little, and is going to get great press from the legal fight. Congratulations to BWF for getting sued; you're getting traction. If the BWF network gets large enough, it could be renamed almost anything and it will still work.