IANAL, But... I would check to make sure they have grounds to stand on. It may just be a bluff, or they may not be respecting the views of the company they represent.
Andrew On Aug 14, 1:25 pm, "Dean Collins" <d...@cognation.net> wrote: > I'm only sending this to the Twitter-Dev list and not distributing the > information to a wider audience but I think the Twitter 3rd party dev > community should be aware of a development. > > Karen Webb the lawyer for Twitter inc has clearly stated that I will NOT > be able to change my applications name fromwww.MyTwitterButler.com > <http://www.mytwitterbutler.com/> towww.MyTweetButler.com > <http://www.mytweetbutler.com/> and contrary to Biz Stones blog post of > July 1st 2009http://blog.twitter.com/2009/07/may-tweets-be-with-you.html#links > Twitters lawyers will be pursuing domain names and applications with > both the word "Twitter" and with the word "Tweet" in their domain. > > The conference call basically fell apart when I realized that the lawyer > thought my application did something magical to the API and allowed a > twitter account (eg @Tweet_Tools) to follow more people in a day than > the API was programmed to allow. Likewise the application could send no > more direct messages per day than the AP allows. > > - I don't have an answer about the longer term outcome. I was > hoping this was going to be solved with a few 15 minute phone calls BUT > it doesn't appear that this is going to be possible. > > I've asked for the dialog to move to email rather than voice and also > made Twitter Inc aware I'm going to be overseas from next week until the > 7th of September so I don't expect to make an update until after this > date. > > I appreciate not everyone in the twitter-development community thinks my > application should be allowed all I'm asking for is a clear definition > of the rules - if you don't want us to use Tweet or the API in a certain > way then don't write blog posts that say it's ok (or give code demos at > dev-nest meetup events for things you now say the API isn't to be used > for). > > Either way I think the dev community needs to know that....changing your > apps name to TweetX etc (even if the term Tweet was coined by the user > community) isn't going to be allowed by Twitter. That's until after the > 7th of Sept. > > Regards, > > Dean Collins > d...@mytwitterbutler.com > <mailto:d...@mytwitterbutler.com?subject=i'm%20being%20Sued> > +1-212-203-4357 New York > +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).
