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Re:Facebook says it owns "book", suing startups using [gener... by almost on Thursday August 26, 2010 @08:44AM (#1635751)
Maybe we should :) Although I think hackerbook.com would be a better name for some sort of collaborative book project.

I get what you're saying, but if you look at it from Facebook's point of view if they don't defend their trademark they'll lose it. If there are looks of [something]book.com social networks then [something]book.com just becomes a generic term for a social network. Facebook then loses the right to claim any sort of exclusivity at all on their trademark (I think that's how it works anyway, IANAL obviously)

Re:Facebook says it owns "book", suing startups using [gener... by tomjen3 on Thursday August 26, 2010 @09:58AM (#1635909)
They wouldn't loose the right to facebook, only to book.

So somebody could make sexbook (properly already could if it was not a social network, but, say, a book about about porn) but they couldn't make facebookofsex.com

Re:Facebook says it owns "book", suing startups using [gener... by ThomasStratton on Thursday August 26, 2010 @02:41PM (#1636778)
And yet, there it is: http://www.facebookofsex.com/