On an additional note, these forums are a great argument against enabling image signatures and avatars.

Fair use - you can use it as a parody, for a product review, to identify something as belonging to someone else, in a news article, etc. But I couldn't take Ford's logo and paste it on my site and use Ford as the name of my site.

Yes, the books are copyrighted and it's possible that Lucas owns the word "massassi" as a trademark. But it's also possible he does not. I know when I started the site I did a search for "massassi" as a trademark and it came up empty. Also, what we do here benefits LucasArts (for the most part) and they have known about us for a really, really long time. Your rights to take someone down for trademark infringement don't last forever, if you don't actively stomp -all- those using your trademark, your trademark is no longer in force. However, I would not want to go up against lucasarts in court, if they sent me a letter asking for the domain names, I'm not sure what I would do. I doubt that will happen but there's always a chance.

And this is a fan site - we are using the name to identify ourselves with the star wars universe and the games we like to play. We aren't doing anything derogatory or inflammatory. We are not claiming we are lucasarts or lucasfilm. In fact, we have a disclaimer specifically telling people we are NOT them

I don't see half of what you are getting... maybe some adblocker?

So...their forum is pretty much those "one in every group" people becoming their own group. Scary. Isn't there some sort of space time law that says village idiots can't form groups?

We might not be able to go and flame them... but we can do stuff like this as much as we want!

http://www.netdisaster.com/go.php?mode=cow&url=http://roseofdawn.8.forumer.com/

Slaw: the logo is in a /banners/ folder, maybe your adblocker is blocking it.

lmfao

owned!

Thats that kid that constantly posted stuff on here relating to the country bears, and bears in general.



IE, a spammer we banned YEARS ago, that got unbanned when certain things happened... and then was RE-banned days later.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning...

heh, 22 registered users... oh my, what a collection.

KILL THEM!!!

KILL THEM UNTIL THEY DIE!!![/SIZE]

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OK, so which one of you guys registered over there as Anti-Plagarist? Come on now, don't be shy.

legal or not i say we troll the hell out of that forum... unless i can get banned for suggesting that, in which case dont do it.

By contacting them, you are probably going to make it worse.

I suggest whoever it was that registered, and anyone thinking of registering to cause any trouble stop now. I have no qualms with banning any of you.

haha, funny group:

Conan Club
dedicated to Conan the Barbarian and Conan O'Brian

I hope I didn't provoke some kind of little war with my post.

I think I should've contacted Brian first.

You should have read what he posted.

Ah Leonard J. Crabs how you amuse me so.

oh oh, its too funny, i cannot hold it in anylonger!
hahaha

GREETINGS! Nice to see you people on Massassi.net have finally found my little forum. HEHE. Now, i've read over your little comments about the satanism and stuff, now just too be clear, thats not my behalf lol. As for the banner usage, the name "Massassi Temple" isnt trademarked. However i am using your banner. If it please the admins here, i will put made by whoever made it.

Now, i've read over your "lets go spam their forum" crap. Someone has done this, and now they are banned.

So, would u mind not spamming my forum thanks. Honestly you have no reason too. As stated The Massassi Temple isnt your title. Nor will it ever be "yours". So, if you want credit for the banner thats fine, dont spam my forum.

The admins told people NOT to spam your forums, ONE of our members did because he apparently didn't read or think before he acted. Also, the name may not be ours, but the logo sure is, so I think it would be best if you just took it down and perhaps made your own logo.



We have been the most popular Jedi Knight community for like 6 or 7 years.

You're the admin. How is that "not your behalf"?

It's logical not to ask favors from people you're stealing from.

No one was saying it was, and there is no argument over the legality of your using it.

Any forum whose admin uses "lol" and "u" is destined for failure, anyway.

STOP BEING OBNOXIOUS.

Massassi is not our own name, it was taken from star wars. It doesnt matter that we have had this website for a while. That settles that.

Leave him alone, hes just trying to run his own forum. He is not stealing, just using something without permission. ewokadv@aol.com was the one that created this logo. I doubt that email still works, but even if it does im sure he wouldnt mind someone else using it.


So just stop. Im warning you right now, if you continue to attempt to insult or degrade these forums, action will be taken.

I thought he was refering to our logo. My bad.


We aren't being obnoxious, we we're just explaining to him why he shouldn't be using our logo. ewokadv@aol.com did make the logo, but I think he made it for Brian to use on Massassi.net. Brian himself said he asked for it to be taken down. We aren't insulting or trying to degrade our own forums MBeggar, but I guess you need to look tough infront of the other forums. Seriously we haven't done anything wrong, sheesh.



That is stealing.

Yep, It's stealing. They should have their own logo.

The name is ok imo. It's just something from star wars, but the Logo definatly belongs to Massassi.net.

This comment is way off the wall, the logo was created by Ewok for us, not for any old person, and we own the copyright and therefore we have the right to take action when someone uses it illegally. I never said we owned the name, although LucasArts themselves don't even own a trademark. But the logo is definitely ours and it's not out there for just anyone to steal and use.

Darth Loki: I would really appreciate it if you would take down the logo and create your own. I really don't want this to be a bigger mess than it has to be

Alright alright :p I just didnt want people running over there and yelling at them for it. (And I never said you said we owned the name. It just seemed to me like a few people here felt that way)

As too what Monkey_Man said, I am not the only admin for the site.

Anyway, I can see some people agree with me, and some dont. But none-the-less I will change the banner. To the creator of the banner, thanks for a couple weeks of using it. I've got no problem against anyone here, it would be greatly appreciated however if u stopped going to the forum and spamming, That'd be great.

Anyway, the banner should change in a day or so.

I figured as much, but since you were the one to come to our forum, you were essentially their representative.

I appreciate that. Thank you.

Well that was settled nicely. But just for the record, our forum > your forum.

That was...nice?


Anyways, I can't help but feel that George Lucas himself post on these forums and is reading this, laughing.

I remember reading this little article posted by JK Rowling on an HP fan forum she frequents, insisting that the practice of believing that Voldemort would be a nice guy if he could just get some counseling "has to stop immediately."
I also recall that KA Applegate, author of the Animorphs series, regularly chatted with her fans, and is the first author or, indeed, any form of copyright holder to openly give permission for fan fiction, fan art, etc that I've ever seen or heard of first hand.
If Uncle George visited here, who do you think he would be?

-Is it me? Thrawn? Brian? Kirby? Monkey_Man?

Not me, I promise.

What was the question?

...
do you people even read other people's posts?

-It happens to me EVERYWHERE.

I AM GEORGE LUCAS.

just kidding

darth loki, great guy.

I believe this was posted on the 21st. A day later, and the banner still hasn't changed. Just an observation.

It's the "Or so" part he's gonna take advantage of.

It will be changed, I just haven't gotten around to making a new one as of yet. Speaking of which, I'll do it now