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Iris Bravemount
Golden Grinding Gears
#1 - 2012-01-28 15:34:21 UTC
What would happen in real life if suddenly, someone would sell "C.O.C.A.C.O.L.A." ?

There would be a lawsue, and he would have to change his product's name.

How about some system that would allow alliances and or corporations who wish to protect their names to do so ?

Entity A could issue a copyright certificate to NPC's, and Entity B which has a, say 70%, matching name* would have three choices from there on :

- Buy the name, in which case entity A would be in the situation entity B was in.
- Pay loyalties to entity A.
- Don't give a **** and simply change it's name.

To buy a copyright, you would need to spend 25% more than the initial deposit. Entity A gets reimbursed it's deposit, the 25% are divided equally between the NPCs and entuty B's deposit. (ISK sink)

Loyalties could be 10% of the deposit per month, divided equally between entity A and the NPCs (another ISK sink).

The richest entities could protect their names easily.

Any entity could only own a single copy right, to prevent name brokering. (Except for executive corps of alliances which would own both the name of their alliance and the name of their corp).

* Software can do this. There are such matching words scripts in CAT tools.

"I will not hesitate when the test of Faith finds me, for only the strongest conviction will open the gates of paradise. My Faith in you is absolute; my sword is Yours, My God, and Your will guides me now and for all eternity." - Paladin's Creed
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-01-28 16:55:08 UTC
Sounds horribly exploitable.

I've got a counter-proposal: wardec the corp with the offending name and grief them all into dropping corp for a new one.
Iris Bravemount
Golden Grinding Gears
#3 - 2012-01-28 16:56:19 UTC
mxzf wrote:
Sounds horribly exploitable.

I've got a counter-proposal: wardec the corp with the offending name and grief them all into dropping corp for a new one.


Hard to put in practice if the other entity is at the other side of the universe...

"I will not hesitate when the test of Faith finds me, for only the strongest conviction will open the gates of paradise. My Faith in you is absolute; my sword is Yours, My God, and Your will guides me now and for all eternity." - Paladin's Creed
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#4 - 2012-01-28 17:00:21 UTC
Iris Bravemount wrote:
mxzf wrote:
Sounds horribly exploitable.

I've got a counter-proposal: wardec the corp with the offending name and grief them all into dropping corp for a new one.


Hard to put in practice if the other entity is at the other side of the universe...


If a group cares enough about their name, they can do it; if they don't care enough, they can get over it. *shrug* I'm not seeing any actual need for the ability to sue someone in-game, there's enough of that stupidity in real life.