There's also quite an interesting technical trick: if you want to identify something that you never want to trade mark, choose a name that is already widely in people's vocabularies - google open space and you will see what I mean
We're actually playing a game like this at the moment with city names. In most countries nobody can own the city's brand - across Europe and beyond there's an amazing family Club of London, Budapest, Madrid etc emerging. At least I think so but then I nabbed London to stand for being an epicentre that advises how to map every humanitarian network that wants to cooperate and multiply other ones Chris Macrae, wcbn...@easynet.co.uk http://cluboflondon.blogspot.com/ * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist