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<blockquote data-quote="Shakeshift" data-source="post: 8595279" data-attributes="member: 7034572"><p>The stupidity reached a high pitch when someone pointed out to Dave Johnson that when the research was done on trademarks after Dave started trying to strong-arm people into obeying, TSR3 only applied for the name "<em>Star Frontiers</em>" and not "<em>Star Frontiers: New Genesis</em>" so them telling everyone to stop and delete the club isn't even valid. </p><p></p><p>To <strong>add</strong> to the stupidity, it was discovered that TSR3 has a 'claim' to the trademark, but it has not even been approved by the U.S. trademark office, it's still pending in the system, so they DON'T actually own the trademark of Star Frontiers at this time.</p><p></p><p>Finally, Dave Johnson made the incredible blunder of taking clip art off of the internet and claiming that it's his own personal art when he decided to report it to Facebook. Several pundits reminded Dave that a company can't personally own clip art taken casually off the internet, and Dave's VERY erroneous retort was that once he puts the TSR logo on it, it now belongs solely to him and nobody else can use it anywhere because now it's the sole property of TSR Hobbies and Justin Lanasa. Trying to explain to him how copyright law works was pointless to him, and eventually Dave just got frustrated and blocked everyone who questioned him and TSR3. It was unintentionally hilarious watching them have a meltdown and blunder their way through the whole conversation.</p><p></p><p>Those people over there are borderline incompetent. You can't even show them facts and get them to acknowledge them. If you explained to them that the sky is blue, they'd argue that everyone agrees it's green every day. It's irrational.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shakeshift, post: 8595279, member: 7034572"] The stupidity reached a high pitch when someone pointed out to Dave Johnson that when the research was done on trademarks after Dave started trying to strong-arm people into obeying, TSR3 only applied for the name "[I]Star Frontiers[/I]" and not "[I]Star Frontiers: New Genesis[/I]" so them telling everyone to stop and delete the club isn't even valid. To [B]add[/B] to the stupidity, it was discovered that TSR3 has a 'claim' to the trademark, but it has not even been approved by the U.S. trademark office, it's still pending in the system, so they DON'T actually own the trademark of Star Frontiers at this time. Finally, Dave Johnson made the incredible blunder of taking clip art off of the internet and claiming that it's his own personal art when he decided to report it to Facebook. Several pundits reminded Dave that a company can't personally own clip art taken casually off the internet, and Dave's VERY erroneous retort was that once he puts the TSR logo on it, it now belongs solely to him and nobody else can use it anywhere because now it's the sole property of TSR Hobbies and Justin Lanasa. Trying to explain to him how copyright law works was pointless to him, and eventually Dave just got frustrated and blocked everyone who questioned him and TSR3. It was unintentionally hilarious watching them have a meltdown and blunder their way through the whole conversation. Those people over there are borderline incompetent. You can't even show them facts and get them to acknowledge them. If you explained to them that the sky is blue, they'd argue that everyone agrees it's green every day. It's irrational. [/QUOTE]
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