RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen

["Manocchia, Robert" <Robert-Manocchia (at) IDEXX.com>]

How about find a name so obscure in the Silmarillion that even the
lawyers couldn't find it.

 

Seriously though, how about hobbiton.

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:41 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
happen

 

My preference is to call it "Hobbitmon".  Small change that should be
legally satisfying and yet subtle to keep everyone on track.  Not to
mention you don't have to move the project on SF.

I did find this laughable.  It seems the enterprise and team of lawyers
are too lazy to read the front page.

"...you may have chosen to name your project "Hobbit" or "Hobbit
Monitor" out of a deep appreciation for the Tolkien Works."

Josh Luthman
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Direct: 937-552-2343
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik (at) hswn.dk>
wrote:

Hi everyone,

some lawyers behind the movie company that produced the "Lord of the
Rings" trilogy have contacted me about using the name "Hobbit" for the
Hobbit monitor project.

Fortunately, it seems that these people are actually quite sensible.
They just want to make sure that there is no risk of anyone assuming
that the "Hobbit monitor" has anything to do with the books, movies,
merchandise etc. that they produce.

So they've suggested that beginning with the next release, "Hobbit
monitor" is renamed to either "Hobbi monitor" (without the 't'), or
"H.O.B.B.I.T. Monitor" . Or something else, but they want to know
if I pick something else.

The full correspondance can be seen at
http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbitdocs/legal/

My current preference is to use the "H.O.B.B.I.T." version;
this is most like the current name, and it would also fit
with all of the current URL's used for various Hobbit functions (e.g.
the "hobbitmon.sf.net" project page). I'm going to write the lawyers and
get a definite OK that I can use "hobbitmon" in URL's and such;
I doubt that I can get Sourceforge to accept a project named
"h.o.b.b.i.t." since that would probably cause havoc with the DNS
entries ...

But I'd like to hear if there are other suggestions or opinions.


Regards,
Henrik


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