Haymarket Mayor places Website on Alert!

Do what you have to do!

You may not currently care about Titles 15 or 17 but I would suggest you start. You may want to read section 512 of Title 17 as amended by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Many of the provisions of those amendments were made with sites like this in mind, provisions that enable the infringed to take down websites that use protected materials without permissions. First amendment rights and parody do not seem to apply with regard to this farce of a website.

Although I am not an attorney with the Patent Office, I think a review of Title 15 (Patents and Trademarks) would also be prudent. Many of the provisions of that Title apply to passing off for commercial gain.

You might not care about the Federal Statutes, but if you were aware of their contents you would probably not have posted much of what is on this website as their appear to be multiple causes for action, actions under Federal Jurisdiction. (aka Bob Weir)

Where does the newsletter indicate that the logo is a registered trademark? Doesn't it have to have a R or C with a circle around it or something like that to indicate if the town bought that logo?

I bet they are too busy sending RX email out to those who had to have an email address to post to this web site to read up on Title 15 and Title 17. Drama is a marketing scheme needed to attract people to this web site.

And, they might be too busy responding/answering to their own messages/mistakes in here to have time to read Title 15 and Title 17.

"This is a summary report of findings from a study of takedown notices under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.[1] Section 512 grants safe harbor from secondary copyright liability (i.e., the copyright infringement of their end users) to online service providers (OSPs), such as Internet access providers or online search engines. In order to receive the safe harbor, online service providers respond to cease-and-desist letters from copyright complainants by pulling their users' information—web pages, forum postings, blog entries, and the like—off the Internet."

Maybe some of us are busy. Living real lives instead of worrying about silly copyright laws. Some of us have social lives.

I still don't know where I stand in the upcoming election and I am very concerned about the phrase "Silly Laws"...Laws may not seem appropriate, and may even seem outdated...but to deem them 'silly' and therefore worth ignoring is a dangerous position to take.
Laws we dont agree with need to be changed through due process,i.e; though our elected officials.

I deem worrying about copyright issues over the other ongoing issues silly. I may have phrased that wrong. You don't seem to do well in reading comprehension. Take a course. Not everything is literal.

Seems like a whole lot of people trying to switch the topic here. ;)
Going to waste time and money to nit pick about a logo while the real issues that are more important get tossed to the side. I as a resident could careless about logos. Im more concerned about why the people who are supposed to be working for the town find the need to lie to the town. Don't you think thats more important then a picture of Haymarket?

A paid patent is a paid Patent and infringement is just what it is and has legal grounds for action.
No one requested use of such Logo therefore is an infringement.
There is reason for a patent. Yu care so much about law on this website I thought you needed to know to cease and desist use unless permission is requested. This has nothing to do wth town affairs it was and always had a patent on it any other use constitutes infringement.
Look at it however you want...

I am looking at what I want. The funny part is since you all are mad about what gets talked about your going for a logo. I find it hilarious.