2015-07-29, 08:17
The cute attempt to pretend you are not attempting to trick our users is officially over now. It is extraordinarily clear in the below examples that you are using our trademarked name in a manner clearly intended to confuse our users, and I am no longer interested in figuring out ways to help you skate along the thin red line between trademark violation and not.
First off, example #1
This is from your homepage. You are clearly making people believe if they fill in their contact info, they'll be getting updates from Kodi. They will not. You are violating our trademark.
You are also making people believe if they read these blog posts, they are reading blogposts written by us. They are not. You are violating our trademark.
Example #2
This is the blogpost you recently wrote about Isengard. In it you act as if you created and released Isengard, and then ask people to donate to you, share social links for you, and help out for you, without making at all clear that you have absolutely no connection with developing Kodi and that further the developers of Kodi generally believe you have been instrumental in damaging the Kodi/XBMC brand for years. After finishing your wildly offensive series of trademark violations, you then proceed to use our name Kodi to push people to install your altered version of the software and your addons, which is also a violation of our trademark.
We are tired of you using our name to further your own ends, besmirch us, and make money, and as such, I would like to see every instance of the word Kodi removed from your site immediately or as soon as can be achieved. While I am only one board member, I plan on recommending to the rest of the board that whatever license exists for people in general to use the Kodi trademark not be extended to your website anymore, and I intend upon speaking with our attorney about legal options should you fail to agree to remove our name from your site.
I would additionally like to note that any PMs you send to me will be published to this thread. If you would like to speak privately, you make speak privately with our attorney.
First off, example #1
This is from your homepage. You are clearly making people believe if they fill in their contact info, they'll be getting updates from Kodi. They will not. You are violating our trademark.
You are also making people believe if they read these blog posts, they are reading blogposts written by us. They are not. You are violating our trademark.
Example #2
This is the blogpost you recently wrote about Isengard. In it you act as if you created and released Isengard, and then ask people to donate to you, share social links for you, and help out for you, without making at all clear that you have absolutely no connection with developing Kodi and that further the developers of Kodi generally believe you have been instrumental in damaging the Kodi/XBMC brand for years. After finishing your wildly offensive series of trademark violations, you then proceed to use our name Kodi to push people to install your altered version of the software and your addons, which is also a violation of our trademark.
We are tired of you using our name to further your own ends, besmirch us, and make money, and as such, I would like to see every instance of the word Kodi removed from your site immediately or as soon as can be achieved. While I am only one board member, I plan on recommending to the rest of the board that whatever license exists for people in general to use the Kodi trademark not be extended to your website anymore, and I intend upon speaking with our attorney about legal options should you fail to agree to remove our name from your site.
I would additionally like to note that any PMs you send to me will be published to this thread. If you would like to speak privately, you make speak privately with our attorney.