{"id":1125,"date":"2006-12-17T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:05:52","slug":"bw-interviews-etsy-co-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"BW Interviews Etsy Co-Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a week ago BusinessWeek’s Heather Green put out a call to Blogspotting readers (Link)<\/a> for questions they might like to have answered by Etsy<\/a> co-founder, Rob Kalin. I couldn’t resist.<\/p>\n

The podcast is now available, both on iTunes (though I couldn’t find it a few days ago) and via an mp3 download<\/a>. Worth a listen.
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\n{A big} By the way, did Kalin casually mix trademarks with Fair Use? Sure seemed that way to me. Maybe he missed this item previously for sale on Etsy: Gameboy cufflinks (reLink<\/a>). Considering the kinds of legitimately-licensed stuff that has carried the Nintendo logo – like these keychains<\/a> which aren’t too different from these keychains on Amazon<\/a>, which themselves aren’t too different from this supposedly “craft” pendant on Etsy made by someone in … Oregon<\/a>? or this pendant on Etsy made by someone in Long Beach<\/a>? – I have my doubts Nintendo or any judge would call those very likely unlicensed items Fair Use. I mean, Nintendo licenses their character images to be used on boxer shorts (Link)<\/a>, so does anyone think they’d ignore keychains and pendants? Well, you don’t have to guess, they have a list (Link)<\/a> of some things already licensed… and keychains is on it.<\/p>\n

I have a feeling Etsy is going to have to figure out how to deal with illegal consumer content sooner rather than later, because unlike YouTube and Second Life and all the non-tangible stuff out there which doesn’t really cost anything to replicate, companies that pay a licensing fee and invest money into the manufacturing of physical goods are going to have a problem with the growth of easy-to-market-and-sell sites like Etsy. Web sales are a big step away from selling knock-offs in alleyways and on street corners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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