New get_iplayer website & forums

[Kevin Lynch]

I agree with Tony, as long as the project is reasonably stealth, we
can rely on going about our business as we want.
The use of the logo and the getiplayer domain will probably bring the
wrong sort of attention.
infradead and squarepenguin are much "safer" domains to operate from

so yes change the logo and host under square penguin if possible.

Also make sure it is clear on these websites that the s/w is provided
under GPL and no money is charged. This goes a long way to warding off
lawyers too.

Kevin

On 16 July 2013 23:25, Tony Scholl <ajscholl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The site went 'live' yesterday and you can find the it at the link below,
>>> along with my reasons for creating it which are to be found on the blog:
>>>
>>> http://getiplayer.co.uk
>
> I want to agree strongly with the sentiments of those who think this
> is very likely
> to elicit an unwelcome response from the BBC.
>
> The domain name "getiplayer.co.uk", which incorporates a registered trademark
> of the BBC, together with the presence of the iplayer logo (also copyright) is
> bound to attract the attention of the BBC's copyright lawyers sooner or later.
> (Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I do have direct knowledge of a very similar
> situation involving another website whose domain name made injudicious
> use of a trademark, which did not have an entirely happy ending.) At that point
> they will look at what service the site provides, see that it enables users to
> (technically) violate BBC's terms of service, and that may be the end of GiP
> as we know it, judging from what BBC has done in the past.
>
> I love GiP and have quietly been using it very happily since its earliest days.
> Congratulations to SquarePenguin for a very nice website which will benefit
> a lot of people, especially newbies, and keep the traffic on the list
> down. I hate
> to be a killjoy, but please think about moving back to squarepenguin.co.uk and
> removing the iplayer logo before running into big trouble, which may
> spoil all our fun.
>
> Tony
>
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