OT: Protecting an Internet pseudonym

Mike Garfias mike at garfias.org
Wed Oct 26 11:17:00 MST 2005


Thats for commercial purposes though.  I can call my self Fatal1ty all I want,
and no one will come for me, unless I'm trying to sell a Fatal1ty motherboard
(or whatever it is).

Names are not, and have never been unique.

FoulDragon at aol.com spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> 
> I don't see it as copyrightable, but I'd bet that it's trademarkable.
>  
> That Fatal1ty or whatever his name is, seems to have his name on a lot of
> products now (fancy heatsinks and premium mainboards at least); I'd expect he
> found a way to get legal protection for that.


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