[lubuntu-users] lubuntu social media page shut down because of legal threats from Rafael Laguna

[Mario Behling]

Hi,

is this supposed to be Christmas present? Please see the Trademark
complaint of Rafael below.

This is making me very sad. The idea of Free and Open Source software was
always to be inclusive and get others on board and build something open and
free, where everyone can engage in.

Rafael & Co, why you are moving content to a closed site instead of keeping
it up to date on the wiki? lubuntu.net always directed people to community
resources, but you want to control things and redirect wiki pages more and
more to your closed site? This is not what a community project is about in
my view. This project has become all about control now. Community resources
are neglected and a small closed group controls central resources, that are
- closed.

Next: People and universities who want put up content, videos and pages
about lubuntu are getting threats of legal action. This project should be
open and inclusive the way it was started!

Here are suggestions, what needs to be done to fix community resources. Who
is interested to help?

* The distribution has become unstable for a lot of people (check out
social media!) - we need a developers, that also contribute to upstream
projects and develop new ideas.
* The bloated wiki with lots of broken images needs to be cleaned up or a
new community resource needs to come up. (I will provide my take on this
later.)
* Lots of groups that had been founded to simply show off "I am in a group"
and get people an ubuntu.com email addresses are inactive and the groups
are often irrelevant. They should be dissolved.
* Outdated documentation, which has become unusable needs to be cleaned up
* Documentation which is just directing to Ubuntu and irrelevant for
lubuntu needs to be changed
* Links that are redirecting to closed sites should be taken out and
content should be on the wiki itself

It seems a number of people have moved on to other channels from this list
already, but it would be great to read, what ideas people who are still
here have to get this project to the next level instead of wasting time on
legal threats.

If you are interested in those topics, please join the dedicated team to
follow up here: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-x

... Still cannot believe that legal threats are used like that in the Free
Software community.

Very sad :(

- Mario



On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 6:50 PM, YouTube Legal Support Team <
youtube-disputes+QDOGT6RQ5QAGCVEAQTZLUMT5YQ.ALjZ-kfRYu8 at google.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is to notify you that we have received a trademark complaint
> regarding your content, the details of which appear at the end of this
> message.
>
> We strongly encourage parties to resolve their trademark disputes
> directly. In order to give you an opportunity to respond to the complaint,
> we will not take action on the complaint for 48 hours. If you are unable to
> resolve this issue with the complainant, the complaint will be reviewed by
> the YouTube Team and may be removed pursuant to our Trademark Guidelines (
> https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801979).
>
> For more information on editing the title, description, or tags of your
> video, please visit the YouTube Help Center at https://support.google.com/
> youtube/topic/4355241?ref_topic=4355169. If the alleged violation is
> located within the video itself, you may have to remove the video in its
> entirety (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/55770).
>
> Regards,
>
> The YouTube Legal Support Team
>
> Title: Mr.
>
> Full legal name: Rafael Laguna
>
> Company name: Lubuntu
>
> Trademark owner name: Canonical Ltd.
>
> Relationship: Artwork Director Tram
>
> Email: Wolf at rafaellaguna.uk
>
> Brand type: Wordmark and Logo
>
> Register status: Yes
>
> Jurisdiction of registration: GB
>
> Registration number: 4578010
>
> Content type: Channel description
>
> Channels: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0nEnI4yt2OCiZwRT0q90tQ/about
>
> Clarification: The user is using a Ubuntu flavour Icon and Name (Lubuntu
> and the icon of Lubuntu) all of them registered by Canonical Ltd, UK, and
> allowed to be used only in the website http://lubuntu.me as indicated in
> the countersigned licence attached.
>
> Signature: Rafael Laguna
>
> Evidence: 1ec9131fda28410dba370d4840230e9c.pdf
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