10 000L$ Bounty for Best Trademark Parody
April 17, 2008 12:18 am
I’m not on strike. Neither am I going to join in. I believe in making noise, and screaming out discontent. I believe in ignoring Linden’s trademark policy until they stop ignoring us and our petitions for more clarity on the matter. Real Life Gods gave mankind fire and let them keep it. Linden Gods gave the SL Bloggers and Content Creators restricted use of their logo and brand name - While you are in full compliance with the usage guidelines described here, you may use the “Second Life” name on your website, as well as the related logos and graphics available at Toolkit, solely in the form described there. Additionally, you may use screenshots from Second Life to the extent that Linden Lab has the right to authorize use of the content within such screenshot, including screenshots of Linden in-world objects and Linden avatars, subject to these usage guidelines. - and took it away again (while in the mean time not caring much about our IP rights). I’m tempted to change religion.
So what do we do if we do not go on strike?
Nope! my Second Motto is ‘always look on the bright side of - virtual - life’. When I combine that with ‘making noise’ I get… Trademark Parody Contest!
LL Trademark Parody Contest?
A LL Trademark Parody Contest isn’t that complicated. It simply means that:
You take any of the following Linden Trademarks: Eye-in-Hand logo®, Hexagon logo™, inSL Cube logo™, Linden™, Linden Lab®, Linden Lab Hexagon logo™, LindeX™, Second Life®, Second Life Eye-in-Hand logo®, Second Life Grid™, Second Life Grid logo™, SL™, SL Grid™, SLurl™, Teen Second Life™, Teen Second Life Eye-in-Hand logo™, TSL™, WindLight®, Your World. Your Imagination.™ (Full list and explanation of the terminology here.) and…- using photoshop, in-world building, music, clothing, body language, a poem, RL photographs, your mom, World of Warcraft, machinima, a pile of avatars, crayons, MSpaint, … you make a funny and original parody on the trademark you have chosen in step 1. Mind you, I said humorous and original parody! That does not mean glueing the trademark in question on a goatse photograph!
- Then you submit a link to, a photograph of, a sound file, a video, a description of, … your parody here in the comments before Wednesday the 23th of April midnight SLT.
- The one I like best will receive 10 000 L$ cash. (It’s my money, so I get to pick. ;)) (Clarification: Of course the parody does not get the money, but the person or team that created it. Duh!)
- The sole restriction is that all entries - regardless if you win or not - should be released under a CC attribution non-commercial license, on the web or in-world. Of course, anything ‘more open’ (CC attribution, released into public domain, …) goes too.
Let’s get those creative minds to work, and show Linden exactly why they don’t want to chase us away. We’re amazingly good at creating content for their Second Life®. ;)
(On a side note: 27left to go)
16 Responses to “10 000L$ Bounty for Best Trademark Parody”
“That does not mean glueing the trademark in question on a goatse photograph!”
Damn. There goes my idea.
You, Sir, should be working on my
breakfastpicnick! *grins* :pYou are made of everything win-ful!
Brilliant, hilarious, and sooo sharp - I love it!
Seeing as how I’ve already made one, I suppose I may as well enter the contest. A few people seem to have enjoyed it, so “mission already accomplished” as far as I’m concerned:
http://jacek.meratalk.com/2008/03/31/mouth-in-foot-logo/
Various sizes and file formats are available, including the original Inkscape SVG file, under CC Attr-Share Alike license (I’m assuming that qualifies as ‘more open’ than Attr-Non Commercial).
I hope to see some great entries from the other artsy-fartsy folks out there!
Great Jacek. I remember someone doing an ExitSL too, but can’t remember whom. Curious for others, though. =)
10000K L$ should get the disgruntled people to get their creative juices flowing, no?
Ha, i’ll try to do something too. :-D
Ok, I am stumbed… What is the “27 left to go“???
Will need to think on what to do with some of the logos, but how many are we allowed to submit?
we are the LAB ..
your IP belong to us ..
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7808/wearethelabif8.jpg
regards
Word
Great contest! I will go ahead and submit the Tiny Dancing Brand Center section of my blog.
http://kanomi.blogspot.com/2008/03/announcing-tiny-dancing-brand-center.html
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my entry by mail :-)
hope i made it through your spamfilter.
and the next contest already started??? maaan, when will there be the first “best bus snapshot” contest?
gonna be there!!!
greetings, nuschi inSL
my logo parody is now on the 2nd-travel-blog, too:
http://2ndtravel.blogspot.com
way down at the bottom of our site, where it says:
no official SLblog!
Sometimes, it’s one hell of a love-hate relationship. Dazzle, Voice, skirts, groups…
http://storm.thunders.googlepages.com/TellItToTheHand.png
I picked up a free emotes hud, turns out to have a lot of expressions. Creepy in an uncanny valley sort of way.
http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=264598
Damn, I missed the deadline by ONE day. I could have used that L10,000 as well since I’ll probably be permabanned by LL. Oops! Can I say that? “LL”? [/me checks official list and sighs with relief to find that LL is NOT listed…. LL LL LL na na :-P)
Drumroll please…….. for the NEW verse to an already lengthy song “Dear Linden, Dear Linden”:
Dear Linden, Dear Linden,
I just don’t understand
The new terms of service
About using your brand.
Registered trademarks
And copyright signs,
Must I use them all of the time?
Signed, a blogger
Blogger,Dear blogger
We hear what you say
And at Linden Lab (R)
We don’t like things this way
But our lawyers insist
That it must be done
We sincerely hope it won’t ruin your fun
Signed, a Linden (TM)
– submitted by Niko Donburi, a/k/a the “Weird Al” of the virtual world formally known as Second Life
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