More often that I'd like, I've seen people get too deep into their projects, and forget that things are supposed to be fun.<p>They start trying to coerce their project into a business, and it not only looks sad, but destroys what they loved in the process.<p>I certainly understand the temptation, but I hope I maintain the wisdom to know where the line should be.
I like the idea of Saint Backup Day much better than world backup day ... but why not make it Jan 3, though, the feast day of St. Genevieve, the actual patron saint of disasters? Also in early January most people are in a "let's get organized" mood, anyway.
<i>Descriptive terms immediately describe the goods, or some important characteristic of the goods. Trademark law does not protect descriptive terms unless achieve "secondary meaning" in the minds of consumers. That is, trademark rights accrue when the public comes to associate the descriptive term with a particular company rather than the product in general.</i><p>[...]<p><i>Failure to "police" a mark by stopping infringing uses can result in the loss of protection.</i><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_trademark_law#Descriptive" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_trademark_law#De...</a><p>Two sponsors on the website, yet numerous parties issuing press releases:<p><a href="https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=world%20backup%20day#q=world+backup+day&hl=en&source=univ&tbm=nws&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=cwlTUd6yDO3j4AOpuoGwCA&ved=0CEAQqAI&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44342787,d.dmg&fp=6b5b7d932ecc93ee&biw=1386&bih=806" rel="nofollow">https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=world%20back...</a>
> <i>take down any unauthorized reference to World Backup Day, it’s trademarks</i><p>> <i>it's trademarks</i><p>I try not to harass people on HN and Reddit with grammar, but I do expect better from a legal document.
Besides misspelling "its", the lawyer-impersonators at WBD Legal spammed the WBD phrase several times without even saying that it is trademarked.<p>Good for Bfy, to displace WBD trolls, unless they set up a fake controversially to make them selves look put upon (cynical because Fake Controversies are a classic marketing technique, older than Fake Holiday and Infographic)