IMPORTANT! ONE STEP TOO FAR, Tedde its time to act.

[Anonymous]

Byrd searched the fake hello server on gametracker and it came up as ownership of HELLO_CLAN_13, so Sebasjee is now giving credit for his server to tedde, and banning every to give tdde a bad name. Byrd fearing sebasjee might try to claim the real hello, immeadiatly tried claim the real hello (srry tedde), but i would have temporarily had to change its name to gametracker, which i couldnt so i failed. Anyway Tedde i reallythink it is time to register Hello as a trademark immeadiately before sebasjee does. If it costs money byrd will gladly donate $$$$ (he will have his bro drive him) to post office. Tedde its time to register HELLO as a trademark and end all this, and it will promote hello as a forums so come on. All who want tedde to do this please post here.

 

[acashmony]

well i do agree but byrd its teddes choice and plus your not in the clan so why do you take this personally :?:

 

[Cpt. Giggles]

I agree as well but im pretty sure registering a trademark costs a good bit of money...

 

[Cpt. Giggles]

nevermind. copywrite costs 35 dollars. If a US citizen gets the copywrite, the problem would be solved in a atter of days.

 

[Anonymous]

curtiosy of byrd ang giggles, please donate!

 

[ZamZam]

why buy a copy right? i beleive you should only get it if you plan on selling things or what not. Not to have it just laying around. I know nothing will last forever but why this?

 

[Cpl.AJ]

well i do agree but byrd its teddes choice and plus your not in the clan so why do you take this personally :?:

cashy, byrd is a member of our family, we have known him for quite awhile, i think its cool how hes caring for other clans

 

[Anonymous]

Because a guy named sebasjee is purposely trying to take down hello by copiing hello's name and claiming it as his, which copyrighting will prevent. And honestly who knows where hello might head in the future?
US Citizen suggestions if tedde agrees with this? (Travaco? Moderator and lives in US someone who tedde trusts alot)

 

[Cpl.AJ]

we can get it trade marked, its possible, but if things go down bad, and this seb conspiracy stuff is true, i will still be loyal to this clan! tedde, we have worked too dang hard to let someone steal our clan, i havent known u all for awhile, but i know that this is serious chizz!

 

[Kurk]

Tedde's route is, by far, the best and only way to deal with this. As SuceededKiller stated before, Trademarks are expensive and can cost up to 1.000 GBP. I don't think anyone has that much lying around to spend on something so trivial. I know I don't, and if you do, put it in a bank for college. Hacking gets you no-where, it only gets you a server down for an hour or two, or at most a week. Legally, I feel this would be thrown out of any civilised court room as no "fruad" is being made illegally and no money is technecally being lost by having an imposter.

 

[Old Hippo]

nevermind. copywrite costs 35 dollars. If a US citizen gets the copywrite, the problem would be solved in a atter of days.

I don't see how it would be solved. The U.S. government isn't exactly going to show up at his door and force him to stop copying a server name at knife point. Do you really think HELLO is going to file a law suit over this? Is this even technically illegal? I mean, lets get back to reality a bit.

Looking at the servers tonight, I think Tedde is right, we should just wait it out. Seb's servers were empty, while ours had 30+ players. 60 some bucks a month is quite a lot for a ruse that few people are buying into.

 

[SgtStubbs]

Yes, I agree with Hippo. I'm from a Law family and with a copyright your talking about lawyers and a good chunk of money, not to mention the time involved and red tape. You would also need a good reason for the copyright, which I don't think this would fly in Federal court.

Now for Seabajee hacking that may be illegal but proving it is another matter.

 

[Tedde]

Ok guys, i appreciate all of you guys support here it means alot to me. What im going to do is to get this website copyrighted by talking with my dads friends that has internet companies. That means setting a copyright on the HelloClan for good. But on the servers im sorry to say, i dont think there is much we can do. If this teenager wants to pay over a 100 bucks per month to "take down helloclan". Then go ahead, the helloclan is not represented by our bfv server. Its the other way around. The heart of helloclan is within its members, so he cant damage the actual clan, just the servers. Because his not recruiting hello members impersonating me is he? And as you guys are saying, this matter would be thrown out of a court. And if were gonna be optimists for a moment, then as far as he's using the -[HELLO]- tags, he is actually giving helloclan credit for the servers. Then he is also afk on the server 24/7, which adds really high electricity costs for him beside the actual server cost. Then lets also clap ourselfes on our shoulders, were famous enough for people to impersonate us and actually gain players

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks tedde thumbsup0. Byrd will keep digging into this sebasjee charcter and see what he can find. Maybe waitng it out is a good idea and all, considering he will get bored and stop. How long will that be i do not know. And yes hes imersontating you (which is illeagal in the US), and since you live in sweden, it kinda hard to do something about that, unless you were to become extremely famous overnight. If you want a few things on thius characteri have some. But andway thank you Tedde.

 

[GunRunner]

Just to make sure you guys understand the terms correctly:

You cannot file a copyright on the name "HelloClan". HelloClan is not a created work. Although, the website can have a copyright because it is a created work. In the U.S., you don't need to file with the copyright office, simply putting a "Copyright © 2011 HelloClan" at the bottom of the website would be good enough. You cannot copyright the BFV server, even though there are mods on it, because the source code to create the server software and maps already has a copyright.

You can file a trademark for the BFV server, because "HelloClan" is providing a service.

The HelloClan trademark can be used in court to sue, and win a judgment against, any other server with the same name, even if there is no monetary loss. The reason is because the other server is engaging in trademark infringement.

With that said, and as others have said, the costs of getting a US Trademark and filing a lawsuit would be astronomically high.

Best bet is to just ignore that other server and hope that he gets bored and goes away.

 

[Anonymous]

Gun Runner, the purpose want to copyright the website, and do it officially. Just smacking the copyrightmark on is not good enough. Considering it costs $35, its totally worth it to.

 

[GunRunner]

Just smacking the copyrightmark on is not good enough.

Putting "Copyright © 2011 HelloClan" at the bottom of the website is good enough and will legally hold up in any US court.

 

[Anonymous]

But we should only do that after its officailly done. This hello clan so lying about that is not the way to go.

 

[Tedde]

And yes hes imersontating you (which is illeagal in the US), and since you live in sweden, it kinda hard to do something about that, unless you were to become extremely famous overnight.

Wait, you mean im not extremely famous?

 

[Anonymous]

Lol! i ment politically, how people impersonate justin bieber on a daily basis, and hes no politician so nothing can be done about it?