16 Dec 2007, 6:55 am
Sorry Alex, but some sick individual in Second Life has associated Wrong Planet and Autism Speaks and released products (shirts and placards) with references to our beloved site to raise money for Autism Speaks
Well at least thats the way I'm gonna see this:
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/noisynobody24/Snapshot_369.jpg
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/noisynobody24/autismspeaksWP-NOWAY.jpg
(sorry, I provided URL's cos the pics are too large, but I hope you can see the text)
I'm pissed about it, dunno about anyone else 
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16 Dec 2007, 6:57 am
Can't you, like, erm... stop them somehow? Contact the person behind it and make them aware of the difference? Copyright? Something?
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16 Dec 2007, 7:53 am
Who wants to bet it was a zomger? Anybody? 
16 Dec 2007, 7:59 am
*blue_bean goes to look up this zomger fellow/fair maiden * 
Or is it Zomg Aspies your talking about?
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16 Dec 2007, 8:31 am
this is definite intentional copyright infringement... alex can very easily start a copyright suit...
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16 Dec 2007, 8:42 am
For heaven's sake - would everyone just calm down and stop jumping to conclusions? You DON'T know that this is a copyright crime - you DON'T know anything about what has been agreed or hasn't been agreed between the 2 parties - so just chill out and let whoever needs to deal with this - DEAL with it.
Drama.
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16 Dec 2007, 8:50 am
16 Dec 2007, 8:52 am
Wrong Planet isn't copyrighted.
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16 Dec 2007, 8:59 am
Whoa that be a big t-shirt!! 
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16 Dec 2007, 9:09 am
Actual size?
And alex doesn't seem the type to lawsuit. Besides, shouldn't this be in WP Discussion? Or is it here to get more people to see it?
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16 Dec 2007, 7:08 pm
contacted the person who made the designs and she claimed that she did not take any ideas from wrongplanet.net but I looked at her store and all the slogans, shirts and boxes are no longer there.
To further set emphasis, the store was set ablaze.
