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Facebook settles lawsuit over 'Timelines' trademark

article published on 4 May, 2013

Facebook and Timelines Inc. have settled their trademark case. Timelines Inc., the owner and operator of Timelines.com, sued Facebook in 2011 after the company rehauled its profile pages as a "timeline." The site helps users create and collaborate on historical timelines. The company has registered trademarks for "Timelines," "Timelines.com" and its own "Timelines" logo. The social ... [ read the full article ]

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Jemborg
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_ 		5. May 2013 @ 00:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is all BS.

I'm actually on Faceache's side.

You should not be able to copyright generic concepts/words/things/anything it's a friggen dangerous path to go down.
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Its a lot easier being righteous than right.

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PraisesToAllah
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_ 		5. May 2013 @ 03:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Jemborg:
 This is all BS.

I'm actually on Faceache's side.

You should not be able to copyright generic concepts/words/things/anything it's a friggen dangerous path to go down.
You said "side" and "generic" and "friggen" and "dangerous". These are copyrighted words.

Sue. Sue. Sue. Sue!

lol. In all seriousness, I agree with you.
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Jemborg
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_ 		5. May 2013 @ 05:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Heh, I remember when Paris Hilton copyrighted "That's hot!" right before her self-promotionathon went off the rails.

She had to one of the worst looking trannies to grace our screens.
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