Comments on: TechCrunch Meets Its FuckedCompany.com — Maybe.

By: Daily Bitekletas » Blog-Hibernation and others

Daily Bitekletas » Blog-Hibernation and others — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:47:43 +0000

[...] Techcrunch, the company, on the otherhand reports that they have acquired FuckedCompany.com. Just in time for April Fools day but it’s the real deal! The news is all over the web right now. [...]

By: TechCrush: The Interview at The Blog Herald

TechCrush: The Interview at The Blog Herald — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:06:31 +0000

[...] A few days later TechCrush shut down temporarily for some apparent legal issues. I had suspected that lawyers for TechCrunch got concerned about trademark issues since their names were so similar, particularly because Mr. Arrington had mentioned it might be the case. It quickly gained traction for a few hours in the blogosphere as Valleywag and Techmeme picked up on the topic. [...]

By: CrunchNotes » The Real Story About TechCrush

CrunchNotes » The Real Story About TechCrush — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:03:09 +0000

[...] Sept 18: Deep Jive Interests discusses the whole thing. This is (I think) the first time I hear of it. I check out the site, note that the name and logo appear very close to techcrunch, and that the content looks very similar to techcrunch. I call my lawyer and say “I love this…do we have a trademark issue.” He says “yes, a big one. when people do this, if you don’t try to stop it, you lose the right to try to stop others in the future.” I comment on the DJI blog “i think this kind of thing is a good check against techcrunch and will keep us honest…I will say though that when companies start to fail we cover that too. My lawyers are pissy about our trademark and want us to send them a letter. I need to contact them to talk when they launch.” [...]

By: R

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:02:52 +0000

Wow, never knew about this site – it’s like TechCrunch but without the blatant anti-Google bias.

By: Deep Jive Interests » TechCrush Gounded Before It Gets Chance To Fly?

Deep Jive Interests » TechCrush Gounded Before It Gets Chance To Fly? — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:10:22 +0000

[...] TechCrush Gounded Before It Gets Chance To Fly? September 21st, 2006 at 10:09 am by Tony I reported a few days ago about TechCrush (and has been noticed by a few others) the outfit started up by a couple German entrepreneurs. [...]

By: Lutz Winter

Lutz Winter — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:19:11 +0000

Fully agreed. Michael, frankly said, it’s not our intention to violate your trademark or copyrighted materials — Techcrush tries to follow Stowe’s idea (he will be a co-author, BTW), to be a valuable addition to the blogosphere on its own, both design- and contentwise.
Please contact us at any time, and we can sit down and talk things over.

Otherwise, Techcrush will try to feature balanced reviews and statistics-links on start-ups. Plus every posting sports a success-meter, where the crowd wisdom can cast their vote if the new app was a succes or failure in their opinion. Check us out, we’re online already.

Cheers, Lutz
http://www.techcrush.com

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:16:12 +0000

Well, I am all for keeping people/sites/politicians honest. Transparency is nothing but a good thing.

Let us know how that lawyer-ing thing works out though.

TechCrunch probably does not have the geek roots that Digg has, so I wonder what the startup community reaction will have your proverbial hounds at these guys.

As I recall the overall reaction was one of sadness (Digg lost its innocence that day?), anger (bullying the little guy), and a little bit of righteousness (you have to defend your copyright).

If no one else will comment on it, you can be sure I will. ;)
Cheers
t @ dji