No but suspending someones twitter handle because you accidentally named a conference after their online identity is still a dick move.
How hard is it to goggle something before you name a conference after it.
How hard is it to goggle something before you name a conference after it.
As someone who is involved in naming things for big companies sometimes, it's actually quite hard to find a name that isn't registered as a trademark.
I don't like the idea of someone claiming all uses of a name forever. Very few companies (McDonalds, Disney, Coca-Cola) get that right over all uses of their name, and it should remain very few.
Instead, the artist crossed the line first and cost himself a claim to clean hands. He deliberately caused confusion, which is what brands are supposed to protect against.
Does not seem like he was following them.
If they have a problem with it they shouldn't have named the conference after his identity to begin with.
It's first come first serve in my book and he definitely got the domain to prove it.
Isn't it like branding/marketing 101 get the twitter handle, get the domain, etc?
additionally it was more than enough for someone to mistake that account as the conference account at a glance
http://futurestack.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Scree... from this you can see at the time he was using the FutureStack image itself (the line just below the logo is from the original, not his edit), so presumably at the time he got suspended, he was using the original FS logo
Dropbox was at getdropbox.com for a while before they were able to purchase the dropbox.com domain.