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0 pointswvenable16y ago0 comments

That may be true but Fusion Garage has decided to go without Arrington's marketing. That may be a bad idea; I'm already not impressed with the name. But the point is that there's no evidence that Arrington has any claim to the product.

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ryanwaggoner16y ago· 1 in thread

IANAL, but I highly doubt this is automatically the case. The lack of written contracts is troubling, but I suspect that a competent legal team could demonstrate significant enough contribution to warrant joint ownership, assuming such contributions exist.

wvenableOP16y ago

IANAL either. Arrington says they contributed IP to the project -- that's pretty significant. I'm curious to find out exactly what it is they contributed. They do have the staff for it.

As for marketing, so far it's consisted of a few blog posts. They do blog posts for other products too. I don't see much in the way of any ownership coming from that.

CamperBob16y ago

The last time I heard this much pissing and moaning about a product's name, it was aimed at another Asian tech company who came up with the ridiculous name "Wii."

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