https://ebay.us/m/3rPFOz This seller is obviously using the PG name for advertising their product. When do the royalties payments kick in for commercial use of the trademark? There are other examples as well of course. But I can’t even understand what’s going on here: https://ebay.us/m/EzvyT5 …Ross…
https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/permission.html We've received no royalties from those pages and they should not be "trading on" the Project Gutenberg name without paying royalties. It's proven nearly impossible to get eBay, ditto Amazon, to do anything about such misuse. ~ Greg On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 11:10:49AM -0700, Ross Olson wrote:
This seller is obviously using the PG name for advertising their product. When do the royalties payments kick in for commercial use of the trademark?
There are other examples as well of course. But I can’t even understand what’s going on here: https://ebay.us/m/EzvyT5
…Ross…
I'm in a mood. I just messaged the seller with links to the permissions section. Charlene (puppernutter) On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/permission.html
We've received no royalties from those pages and they should not be "trading on" the Project Gutenberg name without paying royalties.
It's proven nearly impossible to get eBay, ditto Amazon, to do anything about such misuse. ~ Greg
This seller is obviously using the PG name for advertising their product. When do the royalties payments kick in for commercial use of the
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 11:10:49AM -0700, Ross Olson wrote: trademark?
There are other examples as well of course. But I can’t even understand what’s going on here: https://ebay.us/m/EzvyT5
…Ross…
This is almost certainly packaging and selling the download from kiwix, which we facilitate.
On Jun 28, 2025, at 2:10 PM, Ross Olson <rolson@gmail.com> wrote:
This seller is obviously using the PG name for advertising their product. When do the royalties payments kick in for commercial use of the trademark?
There are other examples as well of course. But I can’t even understand what’s going on here: https://ebay.us/m/EzvyT5
…Ross…
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