• YouView sued over name dispute
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Lord Sugar is not amused
[QUOTE=leach139;38600557]Lord Sugar [b]Daddy[/b] is not amused[/QUOTE] Fixed that.
When I saw the title, I totally expected Google to be all over them because the name totally [i]doesn't[/i] sound like YouTube.
Sorry but if you registered YourView then you did not register YouView and you should just be quiet. Similar at first glance, but so are keyboards, mice, monitors, TV's, cars, drinks, and the list goes on infinitely
[QUOTE=TheTalon;38600895]Sorry but if you registered YourView then you did not register YouView and you should just be quiet.[/QUOTE] Oh, so I can make a website called YourTube, everything copyright me, dedicated to hosting user-created videos? Sounds like a great idea! ;D [editline]26th November 2012[/editline] When it comes to copyrighting things, if they are too similar it can be considered plagiarism. I suppose that's what YourView was trying to accomplish. Perhaps if they had changed the name of their website (or not tried to copy the YouTube naming scheme) then they wouldn't have this problem.
This is just over a name dispute, and I'm saying grow a sack and stop complaining. They're different names, period. If this is a successful claim, then where do you draw the line? Different words are different words The people filing for suit to grow a sack, that is
SirAllen Sugar in a nutshell. [video=youtube;Yxi6QDwQyLU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxi6QDwQyLU[/video]
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