Facebook may acquire a copyright on the word "Book"

For example, in the fifth section of the current "Regulations on the rights and duties of" the largest virtual sotsseti Facebook, there is an item number 6, which prohibits the owners of accounts "use our trademarks (including Facebook, Facebook logos and F, FB, Face, Poke, Wall and 32665) or any marks, similar to them to the extent likely to cause confusion, without our written permission. "Apparently, this is about commercial purposes - the item does not contain explanations on this matter.

Meanwhile, lawyers of the sotsseti actively trying to register the trade mark "Book" and add to the list of forbidden to its users the words of another. Attempts lawyers have already found reflection in the developed now the new "regulation on rights and obligations", where in the sixth paragraph of the fifth section of the designation "32665" (text command to update the profile) has been replaced by the "Book ".

If the trade mark "Book" will be registered and a new "Regulation" is accepted, then a large proportion of commercial projects, containing, at least in its title, the word "Book ", "for example, it may be sites - will be from the legal point of view is not entirely legitimate. It is no secret that the vast majority of those who are engaged in commercial projects, the more virtual and has an account on Facebook. On the other hand, in the Global network are functioning smoothly thousands of sites with the words "Face", "Wall" or "Poke" in the name and on attempts to Facebook close them are not heard. The point, of course, in the legal niceties of...

Download "the new Regulation on rights and obligations" Facebook here.