Someone has the same name as mine

[Severus Snape]

Forum URL: darkestyears.proboards60.com

'Many people are takeing the name that I had made up and its pissing me off. I'd like that stoped I had already gone to proboards vilotation thingy and they haven't done much of anything yet.

dthx.proboards54.com/index.cgi


Theres one other I have to find it lost the url to it.


As you'll see my board is copyrighted!

[yugi]

you can set what names can't be used in "reseved names"

dthx.proboards54.com/index.cgi?action=reservednames

darkestyears.proboards60.com/index.cgi?action=reservednames

[Severus Snape]

Ok not what I really mean. This board here:
dthx.proboards54.com/index.cgi?action=reservednames


Is not mine its someone elsese that had stolen my idea.

[yugi]

deathbed said:

Ok not what I really mean. This board here:
dthx.proboards54.com/index.cgi?action=reservednames


Is not mine its someone elsese that had stolen my idea.

sorry, i didn't know. my bad.

[Craig]

I am not dealing with TOS, but from what i understand, is that you cannot copyright a name. You can get a trademark, but since hogwarts is nodoubtedly trademarked to the harry potter franchise, and Darkest Years is an expression, i don't think you will achieve it. Correct me if i'm wrong, because i am not great with these laws, but that is the way i understand it.

[Severus Snape]

thats ok Yugi, thanks for trying.

How can I get a free trademark? The only way they knew about the name is becauseI had advertised threw there before., That board had changed there name and such more then three times already I think.

[Craig]

deathbed said:

thats ok Yugi, thanks for trying.

How can I get a free trademark? The only way they knew about the name is becauseI had advertised threw there before., That board had changed there name and such more then three times already I think.

You have to pay for a trademark i'm afraid.

[Severus Snape]

hum.. so this means I have to come up with a new name for the board and force the copyright on it? Not only on that but the images that are on my board?

[Craig]

deathbed said:

hum.. so this means I have to come up with a new name for the board and force the copyright on it? Not only on that but the images that are on my board?

The image you create are copyrighted to you. But liek i said before, i do not believe you can copyright a name.

[Severus Snape]

Thanks for the help Craig.

[The Penniless Poet]

Did someone delete that board? because it's gone now, and the admin didnt say anything about deleting it. And Seruas, do you know how many RPGs have the same names? Mine has tha same name as about a million others. It's just something you have to deal with. Also, many RPGs have close to the same plot, since in the HP area, there is only so much imagination available during certain areas, especially Harry's hogwarts years.

Edit:
Nevermind. I figured out what was the problem.

[Norin]

Yea, I would like to know if someone deleated it too, because I just went to check on it and it wasn't there. If it helps there was someone posting on the site the other day saying that he would get the site closed if we didn't change the name. Could an admin check to see if the board was deleated by staff or by the site admin.