Would it be a trademark vioation if I registered Flutherspace.com?

ahahha, talk to a admin about it, or send them an email asking permission or something to that effect.

Personally, i think its a good idea, but i think they are alrdy doing something like that. So you might be to late.

Flutherspace.com is available, so I don’t think they’re doing that! Maybe I’ll just use spider monkeys?

I want tell if you give me points

I don’t think it would be a violation, but I think your site idea kind of goes against what Fluther is all about: Asking and Answering Questions.

I try to distance myself from a registered trademark or affiliation that isn’t directly related to what I’m trying to achieve, so a Fluther Search widget makes sense, but MySpace for Fluther users doesn’t…

I don’t think Fluther is registered as a trademark anywhere, so it wouldn’t be a trademark violation, but whether Fluther would appreciate it is a different question. I wouldn’t if I were them (as they lose control).

There are a number of Twitter API clients that contain “Twitter”. Off the top of my head, there’s: Twitterrific, Twittervision, Twittermap, Twittersearch, Twitterverse, Twitter Blocks, TwitterPoster, and many more.

These guys don’t seem to mind much.

@sferik – but that’s using an Open API connecting to Twitter. This would be a totally independent site leveraging the Fluther community.

@Vincentt right, but US trademark law applies just the same, regardless of whether there is an official affiliation or not.

@sferik – really? Oh, that’s new, I always thought it was only copyright that applied automatically and that trademarks had to be registered…

@Vincentt what I meant was that trademarks cannot be enforced selectively. Another site, whether affiliated or unaffiliated, is either infringing on a trademark or they are not. Just because they are using an official API, doesn’t give them a free pass with respect to trademark law.

@sferik – ah, right. Yeah, you’re definitely right there, but I can imagine that the Twitter guys wouldn’t really mind that much when projects use their API in combination with their name.

lmao