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Quote from: OneFixt on October 01, 2011, 07:25:15 PM

Quote from: proudhon on October 01, 2011, 07:21:23 PM

Quote from: OneFixt on October 01, 2011, 07:11:39 PM

Quote from: JonHind on October 01, 2011, 06:34:08 PM

This will have serious consequences to anyone in France trying to set up a business using bitcoins. Anyone doing so will have to get Mark's wife's permission (which will no doubt only be granted if you give her a load of cash). French trademark law is very strict, and it has been responsible for a lot of products being banned for sale in the country.

Mt:Gox - The Paypal of the Bitcoin(tm) world. Regulating, controlling, owning.

I can't wait until day Mark's house of cards comes crashing down. He is everything that many bitcoiners despise, or at least should despise. He is the epitome of everything that is wrong in the capitalist financial world.

Please re-read the original post. The lawyer Michael Pascazi and his wife have copyrighted "Bitcoin" in order to make money off of other people's work. Mark, the owner of MtGox, is the one fighting against this.

Trademarked. Not copyrighted.

Oops, thanks =)

np

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Quote from: proudhon on October 01, 2011, 07:21:23 PM

Quote from: OneFixt on October 01, 2011, 07:11:39 PM

Quote from: JonHind on October 01, 2011, 06:34:08 PM

This will have serious consequences to anyone in France trying to set up a business using bitcoins. Anyone doing so will have to get Mark's wife's permission (which will no doubt only be granted if you give her a load of cash). French trademark law is very strict, and it has been responsible for a lot of products being banned for sale in the country.

Mt:Gox - The Paypal of the Bitcoin(tm) world. Regulating, controlling, owning.

I can't wait until day Mark's house of cards comes crashing down. He is everything that many bitcoiners despise, or at least should despise. He is the epitome of everything that is wrong in the capitalist financial world.

Please re-read the original post. The lawyer Michael Pascazi and his wife have copyrighted "Bitcoin" in order to make money off of other people's work. Mark, the owner of MtGox, is the one fighting against this.

Trademarked. Not copyrighted.

Oops, thanks =)

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Quote from: OneFixt on October 01, 2011, 07:11:39 PM

Quote from: JonHind on October 01, 2011, 06:34:08 PM

This will have serious consequences to anyone in France trying to set up a business using bitcoins. Anyone doing so will have to get Mark's wife's permission (which will no doubt only be granted if you give her a load of cash). French trademark law is very strict, and it has been responsible for a lot of products being banned for sale in the country.

Mt:Gox - The Paypal of the Bitcoin(tm) world. Regulating, controlling, owning.

I can't wait until day Mark's house of cards comes crashing down. He is everything that many bitcoiners despise, or at least should despise. He is the epitome of everything that is wrong in the capitalist financial world.

Please re-read the original post. The lawyer Michael Pascazi and his wife have copyrighted "Bitcoin" in order to make money off of other people's work. Mark, the owner of MtGox, is the one fighting against this.

Trademarked. Not copyrighted.

OneFixt

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Quote from: JonHind on October 01, 2011, 07:13:26 PM

Quote from: OneFixt on October 01, 2011, 07:11:39 PM

Please re-read the original post. The lawyer Michael Pascazi and his wife have copyrighted "Bitcoin" in order to make money off of other people's work. Mark, the owner of MtGox, is the one fighting against this.

Sorry, I completely misread. I blame the red wine.

I take it all back.

No problem, glad to hear that it was an honest mistake.

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Quote from: OneFixt on October 01, 2011, 07:11:39 PM

Please re-read the original post. The lawyer Michael Pascazi and his wife have copyrighted "Bitcoin" in order to make money off of other people's work. Mark, the owner of MtGox, is the one fighting against this.

Sorry, I completely misread. I blame the red wine.

I take it all back.

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Quote from: JonHind on October 01, 2011, 06:34:08 PM

This will have serious consequences to anyone in France trying to set up a business using bitcoins. Anyone doing so will have to get Mark's wife's permission (which will no doubt only be granted if you give her a load of cash). French trademark law is very strict, and it has been responsible for a lot of products being banned for sale in the country.

Mt:Gox - The Paypal of the Bitcoin(tm) world. Regulating, controlling, owning.

I can't wait until day Mark's house of cards comes crashing down. He is everything that many bitcoiners despise, or at least should despise. He is the epitome of everything that is wrong in the capitalist financial world.

Please re-read the original post. The lawyer Michael Pascazi and his wife have copyrighted "Bitcoin" in order to make money off of other people's work. Mark, the owner of MtGox, is the one fighting against this.

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zer0

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Patent/trademark trolling is nothing new. Ballmer still holds patents for the first interweb browser, he's continually tried to sue Android devs/Google/Samsung and everybody he can with little success. Nobody's copyrighted cryptocurrency yet...? Get satoshi on that

Ballmer even tried to sue everybody using the term linux as he claims Novell Linux is the only legal distro.

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Quote from: Bitcoin Oz on October 01, 2011, 10:51:44 AM

Doesnt matter. Its first come first served,no matter how long its been around.

Depends on the country. In some countries you common law rights, in others you dont. Ive no idea about France.

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If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat

Then they will arrest us all!

Kk, when is the revolution?

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Quote from: Bitcoin Oz on October 01, 2011, 11:08:42 AM

Quote from: cbeast on October 01, 2011, 11:01:43 AM

Bitcoin isn't a commodity or a currency. If so, I would like to buy a kilo.

What if bitcoin is declared illegal? What do they do to you if you own a trademark on that ?

Cheesy

There is no way to make Bitcoin illegal, Bitcoin is a network of p2p, a commodity with value only because of the demand for it's supply and what people are willing to pay for it.

This guy didn't copyright bitcoin, he copyrighted the word bitcoin. He lays claim in France to anyone using the word bitcoin in their business. I'm excited to see how this holds up,

I kinda want to incorporate 'Bitcoin, Inc.' in France and have him try and take me to court, just so I can set the precedent and use the case to argue a wrongful copyright claim in court. The fact that Gox has been fighting French courts over Bitcoin use actually helps our case.

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Wat

Quote from: Serge on October 01, 2011, 11:21:43 AM

Quote from: cbeast on October 01, 2011, 11:01:43 AM

Bitcoin isn't a commodity or a currency. If so, I would like to buy a kilo.

If you look deep enough, you will see it's a currency of electric signal patterns magically becoming commodity in a stored form Grin

Well its an electric currentcy.

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Quote from: cbeast on October 01, 2011, 11:01:43 AM

Bitcoin isn't a commodity or a currency. If so, I would like to buy a kilo.

If you look deep enough, you will see it's a currency of electric signal patterns magically becoming commodity in a stored form Grin

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You do not want to screw up in France, if they decide to arrest him for whatever reason, he will wish he had never been born.

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Wat

Quote from: cbeast on October 01, 2011, 11:01:43 AM

Bitcoin isn't a commodity or a currency. If so, I would like to buy a kilo.

What if bitcoin is declared illegal? What do they do to you if you own a trademark on that ?

Cheesy

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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.

Bitcoin isn't a commodity or a currency. If so, I would like to buy a kilo.

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How about trademark his and his wife's name worldwide?

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Ummm,

I wonder what this could potentially do to both him and the court case (Gox vs bank) in France. Unless my memory is totally screwed there are heavy duty penalties for "misleading public offices" in France.

It would be hilarious if this were filed later than the initial filings in the court case Grin

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Wat

Quote from: teflone on October 01, 2011, 10:48:38 AM

Yes, a complete waste, as Bitcoin has been around BEFORE his claim..

Bitcoin is its own...

Doesnt matter. Its first come first served,no matter how long its been around.

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You're fat, because you dont have any pics on FB

Yes, a complete waste, as Bitcoin has been around BEFORE his claim..

Bitcoin is its own...

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