p2pnet news P2P:- | Freedom:- “It could have been a nice evening today,” posted Martin Fiedler in his KeyJ blog, going on:

“But to my great surprise, I found a not-so-nice e-mail in my Inbox – and at the same time, my parents found the same thing as snail mail in their mailbox at home.

“To cut a long story short: Apple Inc. sent me (via a German lawyer) a »cease and desist« letter.

“They believe that the names CENSORED and CENSORED-s (sic!) violate their trademarks »Keynote« and »iTunes«.”

This post came on June 22 and on June 23, “What’s the deal with all the »censored« words?” – Fiedler posts, going on, “The short answer: Because Apple didn’t like the names of some of my programs.”

He continues >>>

The long answer

A few years ago, a fellow student and I had a great idea for a nice, effect-rich presentation program. We combined my own nickname and the name of a another popular presentation program to form the name of that program. The program itself did very well and became quite popular.

That was possibly enough for Apple, the company who produces the presentation program whose name we took as a baseline, so they decided to send me a cease and desist form. The result of this is that the program has to be renamed.

In the meantime, I also started another project: I bought an Apple iPod nano music player and since I’m not satisfied with iTunes, I wrote a program that made it possible to use that nice MP3 player without that not-so-nice-software.

I gave it a name that was derived from a normal english word, except that there was one upper-case letter where a lower-case letter should have been. That might have been too much for Apple’s legal department, though, because they threatened to sue me because of this, too. That’s why this program also needs to be renamed.

At this moment, I don’t have new names for both of the programs. If you have any ideas, feel free to share them with me

Stay (i) tuned.

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KeyJ – What’s the deal with all the »censored« words?, June 23, 2008

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