{"id":656,"date":"2006-02-10T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2006-02-14T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T18:51:34","slug":"healing-or-hurting-the-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Healing or Hurting the Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways, this almost couldn&#8217;t be further from my earlier post wondering about brand\/trademark conflict inside the Second Life virtual simulation (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=642\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) and still be in the same virtual space: Terra Nova has posted an entry concerning the use of the Red Cross logo in videogames. From the post (<a href=\"http:\/\/terranova.blogs.com\/terra_nova\/2006\/02\/all_your_heals_.html#more\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Canadian Red Cross wants game developers to stop using the Red Cross logo in games, claiming trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and playing the &#8220;support the troops&#8221; card by suggesting that use of a red cross in games removes the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153protective value\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the mark in real war zones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Typically, a response to something like this is &#8220;Screw the Man&#8221;; a little more difficult to do in this instance. However, that&#8217;s a good thing since we should hear a different debate. The discussion both on Terra Nova and elsewhere will hopefully prove interesting, so if you&#8217;re interested in virtual world business and legal issues, I&#8217;d suggest keeping an eye on Terra Nova&#8217;s comment section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways, this almost couldn&#8217;t be further from my earlier post wondering about brand\/trademark conflict inside the Second Life virtual simulation (Link) and still be in the same virtual space: Terra Nova has posted an entry concerning the use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=656\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}