Interesting post at Techcrush, a Web 2.0 review site:
We put down our pencils here at the Crush-Room for the next days due to possible legal issues. Please stay with us, we will see how things are going to work out.
Legal issues? we’ll the only possible person who could have legal issues with the site would be Mike Arrington, and it would be related to the name of the site, presuming that Arrington’s TechCrunch is a trade marked name. Now before everyone jumps up and down and says that it’s fair game legally because the name may well infringe on Arrington’s trademark, isn’t Web 2.0 suppose to be about being inclusive? Sure, the name similarity is there, but it’s hardly a major Techcrunch competitor, and we’re hardly going to mix up Techcrush with Techcrunch now are we? Story I guess is….developing 🙂
Update: Tony from Deep Jive Interests (via the comments) points to this comment on his blog where it would seem Mike Arrington confirms that he would be behind the C&D/ legal action against Techcrush. Mike can blame lawyers all he wants, at the end of the day he’s the one who says yes or no.
Tags: Techcrunch, Techcrush
Yeah, I can confirm it does have to do with TechCrunch, as I’ve been in contact with those dudes over at TechCrush.
We’ll see if they evolve into a different outfit (with name to match) over the next few days.
http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2006/09/18/
techcrunch-meets-its-fuckedcompanycom-maybe/#more-286
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Sheesh … TechCrunch and Arrington are getting a bit high and mighty.
Looking over at Deep Jive Interests …
What’s wrong with a bit of media watching, unless you’re watching Arrington and TC. Seems Arrington and thin-skinned go hand-in-hand.
I think TC has become to big for it’s own good – why is most of the focus usually on Arrington when it should be on what’s being covered?
I think we need some new blood covering web 2.0 – more the merrier, means less reliance on TC … means Arrington can deflate his ego and be just one of the pack reporting on Web 2.0.
Thanks Tony, post updated.
I assume legal action is over the similarities in the name, which is perfectly reasonable. Not sure I see the problem.
I think my little quickly whipped up in photoshop graphic demonstrates the problem very, very well 🙂
Hi, this is Lutz from Techcrush. A lot of misleading things were said about Techcrush and TechCrunch since yesterday. Valleywag even suggested there was a Cease-and-Desist. Well, Michael and us solved matters amicably, there was in fact NO C&D-letter and everything is just fine.
I’m going back to regular duty now… 😉