2016-02-11, 23:47
You can name your dog Kodi, and nobody will confuse your dog with an open source media center.
However, when you put Kodi in your domain/website/fb group/twitter account/youtube channel, someone who is unfamiliar with it can very easily become confused with this random website being affiliated with the official Kodi application, and think this random website has ties to the XBMC Foundation.
Which is why we have a trademark policy: http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Trademark_Policy
Nobody is confusing 'sinful iphone' to being affiliated, because as Nate said above, they have an established brand. Confusion is far greater with our product. Also, these guys are pushing piracy addons we do not approve of, which hurts not only our brand, but also everyone else in the chain.
We've had major companies confuse us for the people behind the 'fully loaded' devices and the 3rd party piracy addons, and many people off the street recognize one of the team members wearing a shirt and putting us in that same category.
It's because of websites like above, youtube channels, etc.
We respect the people who 'give support' who respect us by not using our trademark in their name and also respect our rules with not focusing on piracy. This is how you show respect for the foundation and for all the hard work it has to get to this point.
The people who supply builds like Milhouse are fine, because he doesn't bundle tons of broken 3rd party piracy addons like most the other 'builds' out there. Those are not cool, and hurt the entire ecosystem. The only person who profits is the guys who sell those overpriced devices with addons which will break. We don't ever see a dime from them, and they cause us more headaches because their users come to our forums complaining the device 'we' sold them doesn't work anymore and we promised them 'free tv'..
However, when you put Kodi in your domain/website/fb group/twitter account/youtube channel, someone who is unfamiliar with it can very easily become confused with this random website being affiliated with the official Kodi application, and think this random website has ties to the XBMC Foundation.
Which is why we have a trademark policy: http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Trademark_Policy
Nobody is confusing 'sinful iphone' to being affiliated, because as Nate said above, they have an established brand. Confusion is far greater with our product. Also, these guys are pushing piracy addons we do not approve of, which hurts not only our brand, but also everyone else in the chain.
We've had major companies confuse us for the people behind the 'fully loaded' devices and the 3rd party piracy addons, and many people off the street recognize one of the team members wearing a shirt and putting us in that same category.
It's because of websites like above, youtube channels, etc.
We respect the people who 'give support' who respect us by not using our trademark in their name and also respect our rules with not focusing on piracy. This is how you show respect for the foundation and for all the hard work it has to get to this point.
The people who supply builds like Milhouse are fine, because he doesn't bundle tons of broken 3rd party piracy addons like most the other 'builds' out there. Those are not cool, and hurt the entire ecosystem. The only person who profits is the guys who sell those overpriced devices with addons which will break. We don't ever see a dime from them, and they cause us more headaches because their users come to our forums complaining the device 'we' sold them doesn't work anymore and we promised them 'free tv'..
