Suggested changes by woggle:
Trademarks belong to contracts
Trademarks must be filed without 3 objections (or with 2 support)
What a trademark can be used in reference to must be explicitly stated
Limit on number of trademarks in a time period
"Filing fee" to discourage pointless trademarking
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Warrigal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I (do not) submit the following proposal, titled "Trademarks":
>
> {Enact power-1 rule, titled "Trademarks":
>
> {The Censor is a low-priority office. Trademark status is a phrase
> switch, tracked by the Censor, with values free (default), live, and
> dead. A phrase whose trademark status is live is a trademark. Owner is
> a trademark switch, tracked by the Censor, with values of all persons,
> defaulting to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Any person CAN trademark a
> phrase whose trademark status is free by announcement, but SHALL NOT
> do so unless it is not generally used to refer to an existing concept;
> this causes the person to become the owner of the trademark. Upon a
> judicial finding that a phrase was trademarked illegally, the phrase's
> trademark status becomes dead.
>
> A person SHALL NOT use a trademark in reference to an entity in a
> public message without its owner's permission, explicit or implicit,
> unless e reasonably believes the phrase was trademarked illegally, or
> the public message contains a disclaimer stating that the trademark's
> owner's permission may not have been obtained. Implicit permission to
> use a trademark in reference to an entity exists wherever a reasonable
> person would conclude that the trademark's owner would probably give
> permission if asked. Also, failure to make a reasonable effort to
> prevent a trademark from being used in a certain manner constitutes
> implicit permission that cannot be withdrawn.}}
>
> --Warrigal
>
