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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga community support ideas => Topic started by: viviancer on May 19, 2007, 03:24:18 AM
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Hi to all,
In my hometown Kraljevo in Serbia one very big company for civil engineering has name AMIGA from 1992. Their official website is www.amiga.co.yu , this is little bit annoying because this should be official Serbian Amiga comunity web site. What you think is this legal or someone should tell guys from Amiga Inc to start new law suite and get more money from this scam. Personally i hate company because their workers, some of them my friends, work to the bone for 300 euros a month and fat pork looking owner is swimming in money. :madashell:
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They may have trouble suing someone for using the word "Amiga", as it's a spanish word - the feminine for "friend".
I can't imagine anyone being successfully sued for using the word "friend", and Spanish is spoken more widely that English.
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viviancer wrote:
Hi to all,
In my hometown Kraljevo in Serbia one very big company for civil engineering has name AMIGA from 1992. Their official website is www.amiga.co.yu , this is little bit annoying because this should be official Serbian Amiga comunity web site. What you think is this legal or someone should tell guys from Amiga Inc to start new law suite and get more money from this scam. Personally i hate company because their workers, some of them my friends, work to the bone for 300 euros a month and fat pork looking owner is swimming in money. :madashell:
hi...two points...
1.) in a great deal of countries, as long as the company names arn't related, then there's no problem (i remember there was a beer company set up a decade ago in russia called microsoft, and their beer was called windows 95). hence you'd be out of luck. as for the domain name...bad luck dude...oh yeh, furthermore, i wouldn't expect amiga inc to have any copyright in serbia (if that's how this whole "legal system" thing works) in which case you can't sue...
2.) why on earth would you want to help amiga inc...the building company you describe is similar to what amiga inc's activities are like (in terms of short changing their employees)
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why on earth would you want to help amiga inc...the building company you describe is similar to what amiga inc's activities are like (in terms of short changing their employees)
He want to make them loose money... :rtfm:
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If the company trademark is a dictionary word then all you can trademark is the style and purpose.
No other home computer manufacturer could be called Amiga for example.
No other "Amiga" company can use the Amiga font Style etc.
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at least SOMEONE is making money using that name; so it isn't cursed after all...
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It is not the only one using the name AMIGA.
Austrian telephon company (sorry it is in German language):
AMIGA telecom (http://www.amiga.at/)
Markus
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And in germany we have a big chain store for womans clothing named AMIGA too... it hurts me always to see this shop on the koenigsstrasse in stuttgart. ;-)
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http://www.amiga.se/
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IIRC, Trademarks apply to markets... so a company using the name "Amiga" to sell washing powder is not infringing Amiga Inc's Market... But another company trying to sell a crappy computer game for a WinCE based PDA and using the name "Amiga" would infringe the TradeMark.
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another point
spanish is only the most widely spoken language by population which i think is not a really good indication at all. A much better list is to look at the number of countries where it is a first language, then the list looks more like this.
English (115)
French (35)
Arabic (24)
Spanish (20)
Russian (16)
German (9)
Mandarin (5)
Portuguese (5)
Hindi/Urdu (2)
Bengali (1)
Japanese (1)
and to take it further
After weighing six factors (number of primary speakers, number of secondary speakers, number and population of countries where used, number of major fields using the language internationally, economic power of countries using the languages, and socio-literary prestige), Weber compiled the following list of the world's ten most influential languages:
(number of points given in parentheses)
English (37)
French (23)
Spanish (20)
Russian (16)
Arabic (14)
Chinese (13)
German (12)
Japanese (10)
Portuguese (10)
Hindi/Urdu (9)
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I thought Mandarin would have been much higher! Even considering only half (less, I assume?) the population would know the 4500 characters to be consider 'literate', that's still more speakers than the population of most countries with English as a first language...
(So, who's at the bottom... /me googles...).
jaminJay
"Sprinkle a little on your toast every morning,
You'll always be seen at your post, never yawning."
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Most Widely Spoken Languages (http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm)
I don't know that this even includes literacy level..?
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thats exatly where i got my figures from. Population is a rubish indication if a languages is only spoken in 3 countries that just happen to have hugh populations