The owner of says Redd's r/gaymers muny g on his tramark.
Contents:
- REDD’S LGBT ‘GAYMERS’ NIX LEGAL BATTLE OVER THEIR NAME
- GAYMER SUB-REDD FAC LEGAL THREAT
- CAN YOU TRAMARK A MUNY? REDD’S R/GAYMERS H WH CEASE-AND-SIST LETTER
- REDD ‘GAYMERS’ FIGHT CEASE-AND-DIST LETTER
- REDD’S GAYMER COMMUNY UNR THREAT FROM COPYRIGHT INGEMENT
- REDD 'GAYMER' GROUP FIGHTS BACK AGAST TRAMARK
- R/TABLETOPGAYMERS
- REDD’S GAY GAMERS KNOCK OUT “GAYMER” TRAMARK
- REDD 'GAYMERS' FIGHT TO PROTECT ONLE FOM OM BOG TRAMARK CLAIMS
REDD’S LGBT ‘GAYMERS’ NIX LEGAL BATTLE OVER THEIR NAME
Defeated founr pulled the plug on his webse. * reddit chicago gaymers *
Hi Chigo Gaymers!
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Happy holidays gaymers!! I know we have a lot of gaymer dus out Chi town and we really ought to get some smaller groups gog and jt tear up the town or geek out on the nsol. Go to gaymers.
GAYMER SUB-REDD FAC LEGAL THREAT
* reddit chicago gaymers *
(PS: We prented some highlights om our project at GaymerX, and you n see a ltle trailer that we put together for that here:).
Is there anywhere to go wh a laid back atmosphere where we n jt meet other upled gay guys? The owner of has issued a cease-and-sist letter to the Gaymer sub-redd. The Gaymer sub-redd, as you may have already gused, is an onle muny, nearly 17, 000 strong, dited to gay gamers.
” But the muny has e unr threat om the owner of the webse, Chris Vizzi, who claims to hold a tramark on the term “gaymer” that dat back to 2007. But the Gaymer name is somethg I worked hard on, way before redd was even an ia. ” Members of the Gaymers sub-redd, however, note the e of the “gaymer” term dat at least as far back as 2003, precedg Vizzi’s claim by nearly a half-, and sist that is a “general term… scriptive of gay gamers.
CAN YOU TRAMARK A MUNY? REDD’S R/GAYMERS H WH CEASE-AND-SIST LETTER
The owner of has served Redd wh a cease and sist letter over the "Gaymer" subredd muny, claimg the name was tramarked 2007 * reddit chicago gaymers *
” Siar sentiments were exprsed by the anizers of GaymerCon, which said a statement today that although unrstands Vizzi’s sire to protect his tramark, “ is unfair to have that term ed and locked down to one muny. ” “We unrstand the legal challeng potentially at issue, but we feel that ‘gaymer’ is a wily ed, generic term and that what affects our brothers, sisters, and alli at Redd affects as well, ” they said. Vizzi’s tramark do not ver public nventns like ours, we unrstand the issu r/Gaymers and Toronto Gaymers are now facg, and support the need to keep the term gaymers synonymo wh gay geeks and available for e by all.
” GaymerCon anizers went on to clare nfince that the matter n be rolved “ a way that benefs the entire muny, ” but also warned that if the Gaymers sub-redd is forced to change s name, the legal repercsns uld affect “all muni of gaymers everywhere. Sourc: Redd, GaymerCon,.
For well over a year, Redd’s r/gaymers has been a refuge—a place to get away om the sual homophobia that’s rampant many mastream gamg muni and to have some fun.
REDD ‘GAYMERS’ FIGHT CEASE-AND-DIST LETTER
A group of Redd ers are argug a petn filed wh the U.S. Patent and Tramark Office that the e of the term "gaymer" to intify their muny on the se should rema the public doma. * reddit chicago gaymers *
In 2003, Chris Vizzi lnched a webse that he hoped to turn to a “Gay and Gay iendly webspace for gamers to e together and get their vio game on.
REDD’S GAYMER COMMUNY UNR THREAT FROM COPYRIGHT INGEMENT
r/tabletopgaymers is a Subredd for Gamers and LGBTQIA+ wh roughly 2K members. It a fom format for munitn. A muny for genr and sexual mi * reddit chicago gaymers *
Vizzi named , and 2007, he tramarked the word “gaymer. The term, a portmante of “gay” and “gamer, ” surely unts as one of the most obv game-related neologisms of the past 20 years, however.
REDD 'GAYMER' GROUP FIGHTS BACK AGAST TRAMARK
Gaymer v. Redd - Can the owner of assert a tramark claim agast * reddit chicago gaymers *
Gamer and gaymer are homophon, after all; the only difference is that one clus a silent “y. “I thk a ln gay gamers penntly ed the phrase ‘gaymer, ’” Reddor UNHDu wrote. “I thk I’ve been llg myself a gaymer for probably 11 years, sce I first realized I was gay.
Gaymer may have been ed as far back as 1997 on a USENET discsn fom.
R/TABLETOPGAYMERS
The former mark owner shut down , which had bee a "source of pa." * reddit chicago gaymers *
(“As a gay gamer (gaymer? In 2002, gamg se Gamegrene clared was time to add gaymer to the “gamer lexin.
” Meanwhile, Urban Dictnary, the er-curated dictnary for slang, clus entri for “gaymer” om as early as 2006. In 2011, reddor MisterGhost appropriated the term to create r/gaymers, a fom on Redd. “Members of our muny also feel strongly bee this guy sentially tramarked our word for who we are, which is kd of a dick move if you ask me, ” r/gaymers morator joeystillo told the Daily Dot.
REDD’S GAY GAMERS KNOCK OUT “GAYMER” TRAMARK
Vizzi took the fight to r/gaymers self, wh a firm if polely word post that fend his posn.
“I started 2003 and began to build Gaymer as a brand.
REDD 'GAYMERS' FIGHT TO PROTECT ONLE FOM OM BOG TRAMARK CLAIMS
At that time, there was only one other se around dited to gay gamers.