Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
by wvenable on Monday December 07, 2009 @01:42PM
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That may be true but Fusion Garage has decided to go without Arrington's marketing. That may be a bad idea; I'm already not impressed with the name. But the point is that there's no evidence that Arrington has any claim to the product.
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Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
by ryanwaggoner on Monday December 07, 2009 @01:43PM
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IANAL, but I highly doubt this is automatically the case. The lack of written contracts is troubling, but I suspect that a competent legal team could demonstrate significant enough contribution to warrant joint ownership, assuming such contributions exist.
Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
by wvenable on Monday December 07, 2009 @01:53PM
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IANAL either. Arrington says they contributed IP to the project -- that's pretty significant. I'm curious to find out exactly what it is they contributed. They do have the staff for it.
As for marketing, so far it's consisted of a few blog posts. They do blog posts for other products too. I don't see much in the way of any ownership coming from that.