New Article about the TOS

Orchid · Post by **Orchid** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:48 pm

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08/sn ... ghts-playa

I'm not sure if there's something new in the Terms of Service, or this is just a new article. How I read it, the author is upset that BMORG owns the rights to the name "Burning Man" and the BM logo. I'm not sure I understand the indignation, to be honest.

Orchid · Post by **Orchid** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:22 am

Follow up, for any interested:

http://blog.burningman.com/?p=4599

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:17 am

There are some rights concerns in the wording, but mostly if you think the org wants to screw you over. I think it's more along of lines of heavy handed tactic to help protect the communities work from being exploited by commercial ventures.

Orchid · Post by **Orchid** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:35 am

Yes, I mean they could do a lot with this, but it's a question of whether or not they will. I'd like to think they just want to prevent things like "Girls Gone Wild, Burning Man Edition!" from happening.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:47 pm

It is. If one of your principles is "decommodification", then one of your interests is to keep your creation from being commodified. And you do that by copyright and trademark.