What if i make a website that has a "wall" in it and has the same purpose as facebook's wall. Will I get in trouble for copyright infringement? I'm not going to use facebook's wall icon(the green one with quotation marks), im gonna use another icon design. Is this a problem in the future for my site? (I have searched all over the interwebs about the "facebook wall copyright" and haven't found a single answer.)
well in america copyright laws are enforced based on ' GOOD FAITH ' and ' BAD FAITH ' kind of a concept/process/procedure. if you are american born with an american family tree, you can otherwise it's at least 16 years in federal prison. trust me, it's not a lie go do your own research on this. i already lost two .co domains that were generic2me (tm). - Sumer Kolcak
Thanks for the reply. But I find your answers difficult to understand. 1. What do you mean GOOD FAITH and BAD FAITH? 2. If im an american born with an american family tree, I CAN - a. I can use the "wall" and it won't be a problem? b. I can go to federal prison for at least 16 years if I use the "wall"? TIA
If you are an american born, the law makers are likely to forgive you since they are american too, they usually use 'GOOD FAITH' or 'BAD FAITH' concepts to determine the outcome of the cases. If you look like their relative, then they will realize you had no intention of doing 'BAD FAITH'. so they will ignore any lawsuits that come your way. But if you are a non-american, the term 'BAD FAITH' is applied to the case and you lose the lawsuit, in such cases most people go to jail or prison. recently i lost the domain name 'OCEANEERING.CO' to oceaneering international due to 'BAD FAITH' case. they said i registered it in 'BAD FAITH' since i tried to sell the domain name. or since i had not created a web site for it yet. so in those two cases above... TRYING TO SELL OR NOT HAVING DEVELOPED A WEB SITE. it's a BAD FAITH if they decide it is a BAD FAITH it is not a bad faith if they say something like ' it is logical the person had not developed the site since .co is brand new or it is logical to sell a domain name since it is business ' if they put it that way then it is no longer BAD FAITH but GOOD FAITH thus the term 'oceaneering' can be seen as GENERIC kind of like SURF BOARDING or OCEANING or etc.. but if the company is an american company, and you are a middle eastern guy, trust me, esp after 9/11 you can never get the 'GOOD FAITH'. everytime they look at your middle eastern face or name on your id they remember the people falling off the 9/11 towers and then you lose the domain name. i lost a lot of things due to this, i tried changing my hair color to blonde but i have to change my last name too i think. otherwise the business is similar in nature to how apache helicopters are right now as we speak are ENGAGING civilians on iraqi grounds. they say " hmm, they dont look american, i think it's bad faith, permission to engage requested " the walkie talkie on the apache helicopter responds with ' WELL NOBODY IS AT THE OFFICE, SO GO AHEAD PERMISSION GRANTED" and so you lose your lawsuit. and so you lose your domain name and so you go to prison for 16 years and so 33 people including 6 children will lose their life tomorrow or in few days in iraq with a really cool mass shooting from apache. because the permission was granted. because nobody was at the office so... i guess it means you lose, they win. my suggestion is, if you are not american, do all your business off shore. or move to japan or canada, establish your company and etc there. and then come back to us and go back etc. but trust me, these guys will eliminate every non american in america just so nobody will send money to places like wikileaks and so wikileaks can never reveal their terrorism to the whole globe thus sending wall street stocks down and home pricess down with it. they would do anything to ensure their home prices wont go down. it's just a wild wild infinity, no laws nothing, just garbage really. forming a company in canada or trademarking stuff in canada and uk i believe still permits you to take advantage of american system. but it is only a short term good idea. - SUMER KOLCAK
by the way just so you know i do not believe 'wall' can be trademarked or copyrighted unless another word is attached to it. but you never know, if the founders are american, they can get stuff like that granted to them. - Sumer Kolcak
the solution is, call some canadian companies or uk companies or japanese companies japan is hard to communicate with since its all japanese but canada would let you create a company in canada that you can use globally. also if you trademark something in canada or china or uk or turkey.. you can still use those documents to claim your trademarks in the future or use it to register things in advance. a canadian trademark is likely to have same powers as an american trademark. - Sumer Kolcak
Bump for my post. Is there anybody out there that knows more info that could be useful? I am not American, though.
Mate, Facebook can't own the word 'wall', so you are fine to do as you please as long as your website has nothing to do with Facebook. ~ Slutz ~
I appreciate the reply, slutz. I'm just making sure because Facebook recently got granted for the patent for "News Feeds", that's why I'm concerned about this. Sorry for this last noob question: Is it really fine putting a wall on my site, naming it "wall" and it has the similar function of facebook's wall (that all related activities about you are posted there) ??
those retarded companies can take TM on any name anyway if you make some apps which uses write/read facebook wall then u will be busted