Machinimas
Friday, February 24, 2006
Machinimas are animations created from videogames.
Said like this, sounds a bit ridiculous. But some of them are frankly impressive. Based on videogames, and with a lot of patience and inteligence, their authors create dialogues, retouch scenes, mix video, add subtitles, effects ... amazing !. Their legality is at least dubious. But we have to ask ourselves if people should stop creating machinimas or we should change that legality that could stop this fantastic new world.
Said like this, sounds a bit ridiculous. But some of them are frankly impressive. Based on videogames, and with a lot of patience and inteligence, their authors create dialogues, retouch scenes, mix video, add subtitles, effects ... amazing !. Their legality is at least dubious. But we have to ask ourselves if people should stop creating machinimas or we should change that legality that could stop this fantastic new world.
Summary of the response
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Some of you have been asking me for a summary of the response to Planeta Agostini's demand against me for the domain deusto.com Here you have it:
- Planeta Agostini declared that, since they owned the trademark "deusto", my domain deusto.com was in conflict with such trademark. Looking at the trademarks they actually registered at the Spanish Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas, it can be appreciated that they do not own the trademark "deusto" as they say, but the "deusto as a logo" ("denominación con gráfico deusto"). In other words, a logo with the name "deusto" in it.
- "Deusto" is a toponym, a name of a place, the name of a neighborhood in Bilbao, Spain, and as such, Planeta has no exclusive rights over it. There are hundreds of businesses in the areas with that name (deusto) in their names.
- The website deusto.com has been active and functional for over 8 years.
- They accuse me of putting advertisement of Ediciones Deusto in the website deusto.com. Funny enough, that advertisement is part of a an agreement with Casa del Libro via Tradedoubler. And do you know who owns Casa del Libro ? Well, yes, Grupo Planeta, owners of Planeta Agostini. So they are accusing me of selling their books when I have an agreement with one of their companies to do so .... anybody understands this ?
Defending deusto.com; response to WIPO
Sunday, February 19, 2006
This is the response I've sent to WIPO answering the complaint that Planeta Agostini made against me for deusto.com:
Response to the WIPO on deusto.com
Please feel free to give me your comments, and your opinion on whether I made valid arguments. Thanks :)
And I would like to thank my friends at Iurismática Andoni and Jorge, and Ramón and Arturo for all their help.
Response to the WIPO on deusto.com
Please feel free to give me your comments, and your opinion on whether I made valid arguments. Thanks :)
And I would like to thank my friends at Iurismática Andoni and Jorge, and Ramón and Arturo for all their help.
PlanetaAgostini's complaint has been accepted by the WIPO
Thursday, February 02, 2006
The WIPO has accepted the complaint from PlanetaAgostini against me for the control of the domain deusto.com. After 8 years using the domain and with 1300 pages of content, they challenge my good faith based on a trademark that they made in 2002, 5 years after I registered the domain.
I need the help of all of you. You can read the notification of the complaint here:
Notificacion of complaint
and the demand presented here:
Demand deusto.com (in Spanish)
- UPDATED - Machine translation of the demand, for quick reference
Since the WIPO accepted the demand to be in Spanish (?), I need to translate it first into English so we all understand it. I have prepared a wiki page that you can help me edit and translate into Spanish (you need to register, sorry, but I have to be careful with who edits what):
Translation of the demand to English (wiki)
Once we have the translation, we will have to prepare the response to the WIPO. I have prepared another wiki page with the standard response from the WIPO prepopulated here:
Response to the demand
Do you think you can help me ?? I don't think I can do all this myself. And it was to be presented before the 22nd of February 2006 !!.
The resulting documents will have a Creative Commons license, so anybody will be able to benefit from them. Remember that tomorrow it could be you.
Thank you for your help !!!
Eduardo Perez Orue
hombrelobo
wolfb - defend your domain
I need the help of all of you. You can read the notification of the complaint here:
Notificacion of complaint
and the demand presented here:
Demand deusto.com (in Spanish)
- UPDATED - Machine translation of the demand, for quick reference
Since the WIPO accepted the demand to be in Spanish (?), I need to translate it first into English so we all understand it. I have prepared a wiki page that you can help me edit and translate into Spanish (you need to register, sorry, but I have to be careful with who edits what):
Translation of the demand to English (wiki)
Once we have the translation, we will have to prepare the response to the WIPO. I have prepared another wiki page with the standard response from the WIPO prepopulated here:
Response to the demand
Do you think you can help me ?? I don't think I can do all this myself. And it was to be presented before the 22nd of February 2006 !!.
The resulting documents will have a Creative Commons license, so anybody will be able to benefit from them. Remember that tomorrow it could be you.
Thank you for your help !!!
Eduardo Perez Orue
hombrelobo
wolfb - defend your domain
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
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