jerome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here's a question for you omnipresent/omnipotent pentaxians. > >When I registed my website some months ago ( http://exposedfilm.net ), I >noticed that someone else had already registered exposedfilm.COM ( >http://exposedfilm.com ). However, their site wasn't up yet. Over the past few >months, I'd check periodically to see if anything had popped up, but found >nothing. I was kinda holding my breath hopeing that it would be neither a porn >site nor anything too close to (and worse yet, much better than!) my site. > >Well, it finally popped up. It's a movie company. While I'm pleased with that >(as if my opinion matters), I was kinda taken aback with the similarity of the >logo. We both use a film strip, albeit different types of film. The only solace >is that the orientation of mine is landscape, while theirs is portrait. > >After I thought about it some, the following question popped up: Given the >similarity in name and also logo, are their any circumstances in which I should >anticipate this being a problem? Personally, I don't care much about it... but >as my imagination ventured off, I pictured them contacting me sometime down the >line saying that I have infringed on some copyright / trademark law that I >don't even know about... and all I'd be able to say was "but I was here >first!"... Now *that* would bother me. It seems like we are both pretty small >entities right now, but if they should blow up (not literally), then this line >of question may not seem as unreasonable. > >What do you think?
I don't think there's any reason to be concerned. The "strip of film with sprocket holes" motif is very widespread. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
