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Digg sends cease and desist to digggames

Written by James Yu
August 25th, 2006
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One of my favorite places to find addicting games is at digggames, which aggregates flash games that have made it to the front page of Digg. With Digg’s current interface, it can be difficult to distill these kinds of genres from previous posts. Thus, digggames was really doing a service by filtering out Digg’s content for a niche market. Recently, they were served a cease a desist letter (page 1 and 2) from Digg claiming that they were infringing on Digg’s trademarks.

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But, why not stop there? If Digg is going to go after digggames, why don’t they also go after 80% of the sites on the digg tools list? Sites like Diggdot.us, DiggLicious, and Digg vs Dot would also be ripe for a takedown. At the extreme end, mashups would all be considered illegal, squashing all the creative juices that have made web 2.0 innovative and liberating.

Certainly, Digg has the right to enforce its trademarks. But, taking down digggames, a small homebrewed site that isn’t meant to compete with Digg, takes points off of my book for Digg.

22 Responses to “Digg sends cease and desist to digggames”

  1. Digg, The new bully on the block « We break digg! Says:

    […] Since when did the new kid on the block became the new bully on the block? Right about August 17th.. when the bully decided to shut down a small little site call DiggGames.com. Well, I felt bad for DiggGames.com, and its too bad that the bully had to push it weight around and squash little small innovation and creative effort to make the web better and friendly for the rest. Buzzshout has something to say there.. We still don’t see how they could have threaten the almighty “snob” […]

  2. Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Digg sends C&D to DiggGames Says:

    […] We learned tonight from James Yu’s blog that Utah software engineer and professional genealogist Matt Misbach has posted a letter online from an Indianapolis law firm representing Digg.com demanding that he immediately stop using the trademarked name Digg on his site DiggGames.com. Misbach used that site to highlight flash games he found on the front page of Digg and says he thought he was only fueling Digg’s popularity. He was profiting from ads on the site, but isn’t that the nature of the long tail? I suppose there’s nothing in the long tail theory about riding the coattails of some one else’s domain name. Still, if this is true it strikes me as at least foreboding if not a mistake. […]

  3. Accel Zone » Digg sends C&D to DiggGames? Says:

    […] We learned tonight from James Yu’s blog that Utah software engineer and professional genealogist Matt Misbach has posted a letter online that appears to be from an Indianapolis law firm representing Digg.com. The letter demands that Misbach immediately stop using the trademarked name Digg on his site DiggGames.com. Misbach used that site to highlight flash games he found on the front page of Digg and says he thought he was only fueling Digg’s popularity. He was profiting from ads on the site, is that what you’d call part of the long tail? I suppose there’s nothing in the long tail theory about riding the coat-tails of some one else’s domain name. Still, if this is true it strikes me as at least foreboding if not a mistake. […]

  4. Make You Go Hmm: » Don’t use Digg or any other trademark in your domain? Says:

    […] James Yu writes that Digg sent a Ceast-and-Desist notice to digggames.com, a site that skimmed digg for Flash games: But, why not stop there? If Digg is going to go after digggames, why don’t they also go after 80% of the sites on the digg tools list? Sites like Diggdot.us, DiggLicious, and Digg vs Dot would also be ripe for a takedown. At the extreme end, mashups would all be considered illegal, squashing all the creative juices that have made web 2.0 innovative and liberating. […]

  5. Digg Trademark has been Digged « John Furrier Says:

    […] In a post today the Digg name is being used in a non-Digg site.  This is where Digg needs to be strategic.  Certainly it causes confusion but Shoutblog makes a good point… “But, why not stop there? If Digg is going to go after digggames, why don’t they also go after 80% of the sites on the digg tools list? Sites like Diggdot.us, DiggLicious, and Digg vs Dot would also be ripe for a takedown. At the extreme end, mashups would all be considered illegal, squashing all the creative juices that have made web 2.0 innovative and liberating.” […]

  6. TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Digg、DiggGamesに中止要求? Says:

    […] 今夜(米国時間8/25)、James Yuのblog に、ユタ州のソフトウェアエンジニアでプロの系図作成者Matt Misbachがオンラインで公開した手紙に関する記事が載った。これによるとMisbachはDigg.comを代理するIndianapolisの法 律事務所から書簡を受けとった。書簡はMisbachが運営しているサイトDiggGames.comがDigg という登録商標を侵害しているとしてただちに使用を中止するよう要求している。DiggGamesはDiggのトップページに載ったflashを利用した ゲームをコレクションしたサイトで、MisbachによればDiggの人気を高めるためにやっているつもりだったとのこと。Misbachはサイトの広告 から収入を得ていたが、これも”ロングテール”ビジネスの一種? 私の考えでは他人のドメインネームの尻馬に乗って商売をするのをロングテールとは言わな いと思う。これが事実かどうかまだ分からず悩むところだが、少なくとも間違いではないという予感はしている。書簡はDiggGames.comのPDFフォーマットの文書で日付は8月17日。以後Misbachは、サイトをずっと平凡なGames1.orgという名前のドメインに移している。ネットにはDiggという名前を使ったサイトが他にも多数ある。Diggのファウンダーがこれらのサイトに対しどう考えているのか、弁護士でなく本人の口から聞きたいものだ。それともDiggのフロントページから...入手すること自体全て不正行為だったりして。コメントを待っている。 […]

  7. Accel Zone » Digg sends C&D to DiggGames? Says:

    […] Digg sends C&D to DiggGames? August 25th, 2006 We learned tonight from James Yu’s blog that Utah software engineer and professional genealogist Matt Misbach has posted a letter online that appears to be from an Indianapolis law firm representing Digg.com. The letter demands that Misbach immediately stop using the trademarked name Digg on his site DiggGames.com. Misbach used that site to highlight flash games he found on the front page of Digg and says he thought he was only fueling Digg’s popularity. He was profiting from ads on the site, is that what you’d call part of the long tail? I suppose there’s nothing in the long tail theory about riding the coat-tails of some one else’s domain name. Still, if this is true it strikes me as at least foreboding if not a mistake. […]

  8. Adam Says:

    Digg don’t have a legal trademark in the US, it was only filed for opposition on 8th August this year, that means ANYONE can object to it.

    http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78542038

  9. WESEEPEOPLE Says:

    Social network DIGG gets anti social (or trademark……

    Within the Shoutblog article is a sentense, that shocked me;
    “At the extreme end, mashups would all be considered illegal, squashing all the creative juices that have made web 2.0 innovative and liberating.”…

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    […] We learned tonight from James Yu’s blog that Utah software engineer and professional genealogist Matt Misbach has posted a letter online that appears to be from an Indianapolis law firm representing Digg.com. The letter demands that Misbach immediately stop using the trademarked name Digg on his site DiggGames.com. Misbach used that site to highlight flash games he found on the front page of Digg and says he thought he was only fueling Digg’s popularity. He was profiting from ads on the site, is that what you’d call part of the long tail? I suppose there’s nothing in the long tail theory about riding the coat-tails of some one else’s domain name. Still, if this is true it strikes me as at least foreboding if not a mistake. […]

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