[pp.int.general] Fake Rolex

[Mikko Särelä]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Or in
>     France, these parents named Renaud who named their child Megan, and
>     were consequently sued by the Renault carmaker because of the car
>     already named "Mégane"...
> 
> Trademark law should apply only to commercial operations. Since children 
> are not commercial products, it should not apply to them. 

Or perhaps, we shouldn't have trademark laws that are designed to protect 
companies. Instead we could have laws that protect consumers from 
fraudulent naming of products (e.g. naming things so that the consumer is 
likely to mistake the product for another). 

It is the consumer who suffers and who should be compensate instead of the 
big corps. 

-- 
Mikko Särelä
"It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a
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