@@toppojaiwantI was recently approved ownership of the acronym TBH. Stop using it immediately, or pay a licensing fee of $2 for every use. I've also been granted a trademark for my birthdate in the state in which I live.
@@cryMoreLoL No it isn't. It's not like that at all. Microsoft didn't trademark the words Micro and Soft. Google didn't trademark colors. They trademarked a logo which is made up of colors. There's a reason why you guys are here doing pro bono legal-themed free word association instead of making $300k in a courtroom.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think you can't make your logo similar to other companies' logos, especially companies who operate in the same market. It's not as simple as "trademark colors" and I think that's what the "Cease and desist" was about, he could argue that it wasn't imitating the logo but takes time and costs money to pay a lawyer.
Non-compete are legal here, as long as you still get paid. So it's legal if my current employer says "you're not allowed to work in this field for the next 5 years", but they'd have to continue paying me for that time
The company I work at was recently “acquired” by a large tech company. They very quickly drafted new contracts with non-competes, which we did not have previously, and pushed us to sign them. They also attempted to increase hours, freeze pay, and generally bully staff into compliance. I did not sign, and I have left the company, to go into independent contracting. I am also building a tool that I hope will be competitive… I did not appreciate the bullying.
Man.. speaking of lifetime bans funny you mention ads 👀I got lifetime banned from AdSense in 2006 .. I was young and dumb.. clicked my own ads about 100 times cause.. as I said.. I was dumb. Because of that I was banned.. It's now 18 years later.. I'm now over twice the age I was then.. and this is my 3rd google account I've created since but I am STILL banned.. I've appealed it like 6 times but I've given up at this point. (This was right as the transition with google and RUclips also.. and they merged the systems and I was banned on here from making any ad revenue also.. ) was quite the rip for me becoming a webdev at the time
I already unfollowed everything manually, sadly Facebook as a platform just stops working if you are not following things. Like page after page with sponsored posts, sometimes 10-20 ads between each post from an actual friend.
In Canada the loser pays lawyer costs, whether the case was bullshit or not; whoever was in the wrong eats the cost, in the wrong being either wrongfully bringing it to court or wrongful to the law
Im so blessed to have a grandma as a lawyer in the state of california, being based in california as a tech person, who is also friends with my congressman, senator and other various legal entities in the state of california
This is a cease and desist as I actually own “cerulean blue”. Additionally, I own all “blues” and references to “blues”, including and not limited to; “feeling blue”, “the blues”, “turquoise” and “the blue man group”. I expect a response by the next blue moon.
I think there's a difference between ignoring and not answering. What Theo did sounds to me like (partially) complying, and just choosing to not answer after the fact. So, at best, a mixture of 1. and 2.
I think if the company has a certain size threshold then a judge order should be required to ban you or hinder your usage of the service or company in any way as a customer
I actually made a little gaming mini platform on top of Discord. The TOS says if they leave my server, I need to delete all the data I gathered from the API via my bot. So, instead I made a separate site they need to create an account in, and the. Link Discord, just so I can keep the data and market to them later. Yes. Reading TOS is handy.
i mean i know you are just a small part of the problem and everyone else is doing it and so on but > just so I can keep the data and market to them later. makes me wish you stub your toe every day for the rest of your life. these people sign up for a game, they do not want to be marketed to, no matter how you trick them into giving consent
@@TuxraGamer it’s a matter of principle. Finding a way to evade privacy/data protection regulations is never a good thing, no matter how harmless the data is.
Important to note that when you get sent a job offer with a contract, the company has spent time and money to get to that point. So this is the absolute best time to negotiate changes to your contract. Granted this may come with risk depending on the market conditions but everytime ive turned around and said, im not signing that until you remove / put in an exception for X. Its been done. Ive had to wade through the usual 'this is just our standard contract blah blah' but sticking to my guns has always worked because everyone realises we are all just saving us all time later haha In case your wondering i always get the 'anything you make is our ip' bit modified. Gives me peace of mind that i dont have to beat that in court
What on earth is that thumbnail? Theo is being sued? I skimmed the video and saw nothing that looked like that. It looked like a blog post about somebody else receiving a cease and desist letter.
I want to hear everything about the chrometana story. I HATE cortana. Also, I would love to hear your thoughts on Yanis Varoufakis' book Technofeudalism if you have read it. These platforms operate as fiefdoms in the modern day.
10:37 the biggest issue is that those services are international, a lot of terms of service specify that those are the terms unless some of thsose terms are illegal, so the TOS can be read like this: "if this term is illegal on your region, ignore it, otherwise follow it" an court cant say they put illegal terms on their terms of services because those terms may be legal in an different region and no one will go into the trouble to check all the laws for all regions to make sure there are at least one where those terms are legal. so companies can claim whatever they want in their TOS., and our only defense is see if the term aply to us and if we get banned try to sue then...
You're totally right. Your "only defense" is the laws of your own country. That is how laws work. Fortunately, there's an approximately 0% chance you were banned for something that companies can't do in your own country, and this will apply to approximately 0 people. I suspect that's why you didn't include a single example of a ban with a 'gray area' cause. Also fortunately, countries that do business together have treaties and other law enforcement agreements. A partner country's citizens and businesses will usually have rights and obligations based on the laws of both countries. If they don't, you are probably using an internet service in an adversarial country. Just to sum it all up, this is not the "biggest issue" at all. It is possibly the smallest issue that you will ever deal with in your life. It will almost certainly never apply to you or anyone you will ever know. On the extraordinarily low chance that it does, you will probably have similar avenues for grievance as anyone in the host country. By the way, these avenues are usually, "sorry we have a first amendment and tech companies don't have to serve you." Not much of an avenue either way.
I had to stop watching this video and just read the substack. The number of times your comments were "I did this" or "I did that" were ridiculous. Self absorbed much? (BTW, I do usually like your videos 😉)
..Probably last person who typed that cursed name 4:46 right.. and half of this world calls itself a man, which is beyond me Don't take it personal will you. Thanks for the video
The best way is to be prepared talk to a lawyer before anything happens and ask him what you need to have ready, what data to collect and how to organize it. And here is what I think is the best way to protect yourself, buy stocks of the company and organize with other content creators to buy stocks of the company’s parent company of there is one.
Any particular reason you're giving legal advice in youtube comments instead of making $300k a year practicing law in a courtroom? How many coordinated stock buys have you done? Just tell us about the top 10 or 15 coordinated stock buys that have helped you in your legal cases.
These videos got way to long. These used to be about 10-15 minutes and just about to be watched for one sitting. Right now since they've gotten about 30 minutes each - 1) I'd maybe watch a 10-15 min video on such a topic that I'm not that much interested in, like this one, and 2) just spending here 30 minutes is way to much time!
We've had cattle, steel, rail, oil, Wall Street, and now Internet barons. They control the companies that control the Internet. They use their control to enforce their non-compete rule on all would-be competitors. It's the golden rule, he who has the gold make the rules. Asking a top 5 AI "What's the best business strategy to out-compete the top 5 Internet companies?" might provide an ironic answer.
having trademark for colors is so stupid
Its the same as `I have a trademark on what you can see`. TBH, It's where the world is headed.
@@toppojaiwantI was recently approved ownership of the acronym TBH. Stop using it immediately, or pay a licensing fee of $2 for every use.
I've also been granted a trademark for my birthdate in the state in which I live.
It's not enforceable regardless of who allowed the trademark. That's like trademarking words from a dictionary.
@@cryMoreLoL No it isn't. It's not like that at all. Microsoft didn't trademark the words Micro and Soft. Google didn't trademark colors. They trademarked a logo which is made up of colors. There's a reason why you guys are here doing pro bono legal-themed free word association instead of making $300k in a courtroom.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think you can't make your logo similar to other companies' logos, especially companies who operate in the same market. It's not as simple as "trademark colors" and I think that's what the "Cease and desist" was about, he could argue that it wasn't imitating the logo but takes time and costs money to pay a lawyer.
Non compete clauses should be illegal everywhere in the world
…if we didn’t have spineless corrupt politicians…
What if when big tech companies hire all the employees of small companies
@@adarshjkalathil a small company can't afford to sue a FAANG company anyways so it doesn't matter
Non-compete are legal here, as long as you still get paid. So it's legal if my current employer says "you're not allowed to work in this field for the next 5 years", but they'd have to continue paying me for that time
The company I work at was recently “acquired” by a large tech company. They very quickly drafted new contracts with non-competes, which we did not have previously, and pushed us to sign them.
They also attempted to increase hours, freeze pay, and generally bully staff into compliance. I did not sign, and I have left the company, to go into independent contracting. I am also building a tool that I hope will be competitive… I did not appreciate the bullying.
Man.. speaking of lifetime bans funny you mention ads 👀I got lifetime banned from AdSense in 2006 .. I was young and dumb.. clicked my own ads about 100 times cause.. as I said.. I was dumb. Because of that I was banned.. It's now 18 years later.. I'm now over twice the age I was then.. and this is my 3rd google account I've created since but I am STILL banned.. I've appealed it like 6 times but I've given up at this point. (This was right as the transition with google and RUclips also.. and they merged the systems and I was banned on here from making any ad revenue also.. ) was quite the rip for me becoming a webdev at the time
I already unfollowed everything manually, sadly Facebook as a platform just stops working if you are not following things.
Like page after page with sponsored posts, sometimes 10-20 ads between each post from an actual friend.
You made Chromtana?!?
Dude, I love you.
In Canada the loser pays lawyer costs, whether the case was bullshit or not; whoever was in the wrong eats the cost, in the wrong being either wrongfully bringing it to court or wrongful to the law
That is how laws work. "Bullshit" is not a real thing.
In common law provinces yes, I think in quebec no from what I remember
256K subscribers, Theo. A forth of the way to gigabyte.
Im so blessed to have a grandma as a lawyer in the state of california, being based in california as a tech person, who is also friends with my congressman, senator and other various legal entities in the state of california
Just so we're all clear, I own cerulean blue.
This is a cease and desist as I actually own “cerulean blue”.
Additionally, I own all “blues” and references to “blues”, including and not limited to; “feeling blue”, “the blues”, “turquoise” and “the blue man group”.
I expect a response by the next blue moon.
Congratz on the 256k modem.. uhm... subscribers :)
Haha, love the idea of programmers congratulating each other in base 2 instead of base 10 😂
Thanks for covering this, wouldn't have found out about it for a while otherwise.
Please make a video about chrometana, it was an amazing extension and I didn't know you build it
I think there's a difference between ignoring and not answering. What Theo did sounds to me like (partially) complying, and just choosing to not answer after the fact. So, at best, a mixture of 1. and 2.
so you made chrometana i didn't know that, thank you so much.
I think if the company has a certain size threshold then a judge order should be required to ban you or hinder your usage of the service or company in any way as a customer
Deeply insane and unconstitutional idea.
6:01 You can in California
You can have trademarks for colors? Wtf.
TOS's can hide ugly stuff. always read up when you use a service seriously.
I actually made a little gaming mini platform on top of Discord. The TOS says if they leave my server, I need to delete all the data I gathered from the API via my bot. So, instead I made a separate site they need to create an account in, and the. Link Discord, just so I can keep the data and market to them later.
Yes. Reading TOS is handy.
Congrats, you found a way to be unethical
i mean i know you are just a small part of the problem and everyone else is doing it and so on but
> just so I can keep the data and market to them later.
makes me wish you stub your toe every day for the rest of your life.
these people sign up for a game, they do not want to be marketed to, no matter how you trick them into giving consent
@zachw566 oh no, they're gonna sell the data about who plays a Flappy Bird clone!1!1!1!1!!1!1
@@TuxraGamer it’s a matter of principle. Finding a way to evade privacy/data protection regulations is never a good thing, no matter how harmless the data is.
just because you can doesn't mean you should.
what you did wasn't smart, it was evil.
Important to note that when you get sent a job offer with a contract, the company has spent time and money to get to that point.
So this is the absolute best time to negotiate changes to your contract. Granted this may come with risk depending on the market conditions but everytime ive turned around and said, im not signing that until you remove / put in an exception for X. Its been done. Ive had to wade through the usual 'this is just our standard contract blah blah' but sticking to my guns has always worked because everyone realises we are all just saving us all time later haha
In case your wondering i always get the 'anything you make is our ip' bit modified. Gives me peace of mind that i dont have to beat that in court
Can you give an example of what you got it modified to, or do you just have them outright remove it?
What on earth is that thumbnail? Theo is being sued? I skimmed the video and saw nothing that looked like that. It looked like a blog post about somebody else receiving a cease and desist letter.
It's a good way to get clicks, I don't mind clickbait if the content itself is good which in my opinion this is.
I want to hear everything about the chrometana story. I HATE cortana. Also, I would love to hear your thoughts on Yanis Varoufakis' book Technofeudalism if you have read it. These platforms operate as fiefdoms in the modern day.
10:37 the biggest issue is that those services are international, a lot of terms of service specify that those are the terms unless some of thsose terms are illegal, so the TOS can be read like this:
"if this term is illegal on your region, ignore it, otherwise follow it"
an court cant say they put illegal terms on their terms of services because those terms may be legal in an different region and no one will go into the trouble to check all the laws for all regions to make sure there are at least one where those terms are legal.
so companies can claim whatever they want in their TOS., and our only defense is see if the term aply to us and if we get banned try to sue then...
You're totally right. Your "only defense" is the laws of your own country. That is how laws work. Fortunately, there's an approximately 0% chance you were banned for something that companies can't do in your own country, and this will apply to approximately 0 people. I suspect that's why you didn't include a single example of a ban with a 'gray area' cause.
Also fortunately, countries that do business together have treaties and other law enforcement agreements. A partner country's citizens and businesses will usually have rights and obligations based on the laws of both countries. If they don't, you are probably using an internet service in an adversarial country.
Just to sum it all up, this is not the "biggest issue" at all. It is possibly the smallest issue that you will ever deal with in your life. It will almost certainly never apply to you or anyone you will ever know. On the extraordinarily low chance that it does, you will probably have similar avenues for grievance as anyone in the host country. By the way, these avenues are usually, "sorry we have a first amendment and tech companies don't have to serve you." Not much of an avenue either way.
6:40 You gotcha'd yourself. Saying "malicious" as if that's the same as "things they wouldn't like".
I had to stop watching this video and just read the substack. The number of times your comments were "I did this" or "I did that" were ridiculous. Self absorbed much? (BTW, I do usually like your videos 😉)
yuzu mentioned
..Probably last person who typed that cursed name
4:46 right.. and half of this world calls itself a man, which is beyond me
Don't take it personal will you.
Thanks for the video
+1 for chrometana video
I'm an IP attorney... well done Theo. Nice analysis.
Yap yap yap. Shush please 🤫
General rule of thumb: study the law more than their terms and conditions
The best way is to be prepared talk to a lawyer before anything happens and ask him what you need to have ready, what data to collect and how to organize it.
And here is what I think is the best way to protect yourself, buy stocks of the company and organize with other content creators to buy stocks of the company’s parent company of there is one.
Any particular reason you're giving legal advice in youtube comments instead of making $300k a year practicing law in a courtroom? How many coordinated stock buys have you done? Just tell us about the top 10 or 15 coordinated stock buys that have helped you in your legal cases.
1# stop using facebook dev libraries
Congrats Theo
hell yea
These videos got way to long. These used to be about 10-15 minutes and just about to be watched for one sitting. Right now since they've gotten about 30 minutes each - 1) I'd maybe watch a 10-15 min video on such a topic that I'm not that much interested in, like this one, and 2) just spending here 30 minutes is way to much time!
Hell yea
It's too late to decentralise from big tech for most. as Theo has shown, too many of us have tied our whole lives into their digital services.
Are you an AI?
Are you Louis Barclay or why are you stealing his expert opinions?
Oooooooooo
One rule, don't use your name.
Wonderful advice from someone who has never made money from the internet.
@@meepk633 and shut up 😂
404th like :), love your vids
We've had cattle, steel, rail, oil, Wall Street, and now Internet barons. They control the companies that control the Internet. They use their control to enforce their non-compete rule on all would-be competitors. It's the golden rule, he who has the gold make the rules. Asking a top 5 AI "What's the best business strategy to out-compete the top 5 Internet companies?" might provide an ironic answer.
ugh