Hi Nukeador, This is a good question. I hope our commendable attitude to transparency as demonstated by our use of Chilling Effects[0] will extend to us being able to explain how we deal with such situations.
CCing Denelle. Denelle: did you deal with this issue or was it someone on your team? Are you able to help with Nukeador's questions? (This discussion is taking place in the mozilla.governance forum[1].) Gerv [0] https://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/notice.cgi?NoticeID=562688 [1] https://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/#governance On 27/11/13 19:15, Nukeador wrote: > Hi all, > > I open this thread here because I want a wider discussion about this topic. > > Today, Wassap (one of the whatsapp clients we had on the Firefox > Marketplace) was removed due take down notice from Whatsapp Inc. > > As far as I was able to discover, Whatsapp send Mozilla a take down > notice claiming trademark and legal instructed to remove the app directly. > > I guess that the removal was done following the USA DMCA law, so I have > some big concerns here: > > 1. A external company deciding that something violates their trademark > without a court order (AFAIK in EU you need a court order). > 2. Marketplace legally obligated to remove all petitions that follow a > USA specific law. > > In this case the icon and name were different from whatsapp so I don't > feel this is fair for the developer. Also, I don't feel comfortable > telling developers their apps can be removed without any notice or court > order just because their app is not comfortable for some external company. > > Can this lead to having different marketplaces for different > jurisdictions? As a developer I would feel more comfortable publishing > my apps in a marketplace that respects my local laws. > > Regards. > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
