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Facebook sues social networking site for using book in its name
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 26 August, 2010
Social networking juggernaut Facebook is suing a new website called Teachbook, which is designed to help teachers, administrators & parents share classroom resources with each other.
The suit alleges, "Misappropriating the distinctive BOOK portion of Facebook's trademark, Defendant has created its own competing online networking community in a blatant attempt to become Facebook "for Teachers.""
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baxter00
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26. August 2010 @ 13:28 |
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Really Facebook? Do you need the money or are you just a**holes?
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Mysttic
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26. August 2010 @ 14:10 |
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Maybe they are worried about that lawsuit over ownership that was apparently forged.
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Tristan_2
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26. August 2010 @ 14:37 |
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This is one of those lawsuits you thought would never happen, Its crap like this and its Privacy issues I don't join Facebook theirs been 2 times I wanted to join it and twitter but no its this story were I say The hell with it and not join em.
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wiseguy0
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26. August 2010 @ 14:55 |
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Just call it Teachspace. Problem solved.
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26. August 2010 @ 14:58 |
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wow, maybe i shouldn't name anything or own anything with "book" in it, I might get sued too. *sarcasm
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dEwMe
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26. August 2010 @ 15:04 |
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How about faceplant?
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Mysttic
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26. August 2010 @ 15:18 |
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Just call it Teachspace. Problem solved.
Because morally and ethically they should not have to change it as it relates not to Facebook what-so-ever.
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26. August 2010 @ 16:59 |
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i mean I can see the problem if the site is named TeachFacebook, or FacebookTeach, if this is so serious to have a word "book" in it then they should sue everyone with "e book" or "i book" or "book" itself. hell, i shuold be getting sued because i'm using the word "book" on everything i'm talking about. facecrap is being asshole like baxter00 said.
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26. August 2010 @ 17:10 |
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Plus the word "Teach" fits way more with "BOOK"(get it? BOOK, as in SCHOOL) than with "Face".
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biglo30
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26. August 2010 @ 17:11 |
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Billion dollar company suing a low website name teachbook, which essentially sounds a lot more helpful and useful and practical then stupid facebook. I hope somehow then end up losing money on this.
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Run4two
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26. August 2010 @ 19:29 |
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This is the greatest thing that could have happened to Teachbook. Hell, they may have even worked with Facebook to make this happen. Free publicity is hard to find. This could help put them on the map.
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26. August 2010 @ 20:40 |
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Isn't there a movie coming out soon about when facebook first got started and they were being sued for being too much like someone else's idea?
Nice to see that they've become the assholes that they once had to defend their selves from.
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26. August 2010 @ 21:22 |
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Does Facebook know that books are used a lot more for teaching than for faces?
To me it reminds me of Apple sueing or threatening to sue anyone that put a lower case i infront of iAnything.
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xenomorphic
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26. August 2010 @ 22:00 |
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Why don't they sue pornbook.com
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26. August 2010 @ 23:32 |
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Originally posted by xenomorphic:
Why don't they sue pornbook.com
Good question. If Facebook was smart they would work with Teacherbook.com and develop it as a sister site with tighter controls. Education could use a good social networking site that can be a place to share and collaborate without all the useless random crap that happens on Facebook. I work in Education IT and social networking is a hot topic and teachers have tried to petition that facebook be open and allow teachers to share facebook pages of themselves and for clubs but it is always turned down because much of what happens on facebook can be innappropriate in a school environment.
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26. August 2010 @ 23:37 |
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McGraw Hill should sue facebook; they created the textbook long before facebook was even possible.
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27. August 2010 @ 00:27 |
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This reminds me of my other favorite company, Monster Cable. They've previously sued Monster.com and Disney, because of Monster's Inc., according to this 18-month old WSJ article. Looks like Lamebook is trying to copy their business "model".
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27. August 2010 @ 00:36 |
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Originally posted by xenomorphic:
Why don't they sue pornbook.com
Next thing you know, Youtube is going to sue Youporn and facebook is suing faceporn or something along that line.
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27. August 2010 @ 06:08 |
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...and afterdawn will get sued by the AfterDark film festival.
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27. August 2010 @ 09:06 |
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the next thing we will hear is apple suing because someone wrote "I" like in "I believe" these people should watch out because Webster wrote the first book with all the words we use.. how about we sue "face-book for Webster and create an account on face-book for all to see and fallow maybe we can get a blog and a twitter account on who we should sue next and we all split the profits (bet even the R.I.A.A. lawyers would hop on this one they'll sue anyone or anything)... Face-book you are a bunch of morons.....man who ever pissed in their cornflakes and came up with that idea should be shot on a Friday so they don't get to see the weekend..... Idiots ......
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27. August 2010 @ 20:05 |
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WHAT A BUNCH OF BULL-SH!T !! Money Hungry FQQLS
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28. August 2010 @ 02:55 |
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Accidental doublepost
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28. August 2010 @ 02:55 |
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Originally posted by mystic:
the next thing we will hear is apple suing because someone wrote "I" like in "I believe" these people should watch out because Webster wrote the first book with all the words we use.. how about we sue "face-book for Webster and create an account on face-book for all to see and fallow maybe we can get a blog and a twitter account on who we should sue next and we all split the profits (bet even the R.I.A.A. lawyers would hop on this one they'll sue anyone or anything)... Face-book you are a bunch of morons.....man who ever pissed in their cornflakes and came up with that idea should be shot on a Friday so they don't get to see the weekend..... Idiots ......
I would love to see HP sue apple for the "i" naming scheme...the first "i" device made was the HP iPaq...sounds a lot like iPad if you ask me.
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28. August 2010 @ 14:35 |
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It was used by others I have an "I-Station" which is like a psp but its a "pmp(personal media player)the term book lets go back to this maybe we need to encourage those religious zellets to go after facebook because the holy bible (or good book was even earlier the use of coining a name or style is only as good as the product and lets face it next people will think sex or porn is a viable trademark because every one knows what those words mean.. we live in a sad state sooner or later we will run out of words to copyright and we will need random numbers and letters to sell an item will the next big thing be the "abc123-5000" lets get real people and facebook should hear us...stop starting things that piss people off why not play nice and suport others like schools maybe schools should turn up thier sonic walls and block facebook...
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28. August 2010 @ 23:29 |
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Originally posted by baxter00:
Really Facebook? Do you need the money or are you just a**holes?
They have a loose teenager for a CEO. Think about it. What could be possibly more on his mind than this?
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