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Engadget's logo gets boosted... for a Croatian civic action group!
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Oct 10th 2009 7:29PM
posted Oct 10th 2009 7:29PM
Note: Our logo is all over their YouTube page! See it in videos here.
[Thanks, Ahmed]
And here is a full translation of the text from the YouTube page:
E-Mission is a program of regional development and strengthen the capacity of civil society at local and regional level in partnership with the National Foundation Association CCI and spend IKS. Through the e-mission of the central Croatian civil sector, we offer information services, consulting and training. Target user groups are civil society organizations and informal civic initiative in the following counties: Karlovac, Krapina-Zagorje, Sisak-Moslavina, Zagreb County and Zagreb City.
sue them ??? lol jking
Dont sue them; just break compatibility in the new version of the logo.
If you're gonna sue, it should be for the shitty '80's sitcom music that they are gaudily associating with your logo.
KIRF.
@ Mjayhunt
Croatia is in Europe, not in Asia (Or China for that matter)
Your racist comment just reflects your ignorance.
@oh.ppie
Kirf means keeping it real fake. It has nothing to do with Asia (Or China for that matter).
Who's the racist now?
xD
I would be grateful if someone actually tries to copy my logo.
@ hello
A guy named Mjayhunt said a racist comment that was replied to the first post...
I think it got removed or the Engadget comment system glitched.
I wasn't referring to the KIRF
im from croatia and this shit happens all the time.
im pretty sure the group dosent know that the logo is stolen.
probably some kid from hi school did the web and logo, because that is common in croatia, here everybody thinks that if you know ms word you can make webistes.
I think the best way to handle this is to let someone hack their website, change the logo color to magenta, and inform T-Mobile....
Doesn't this qualify as trademark infringement?
Lets just chalk it up as flattery.
Free PR for engadget!
I guess it would be, but was engadget's logo copyrighted in the first place?
Last time I checked, copyright is a given,so you don't have to register a copyright to have it.
Perhaps, but it also qualifies as awesome in the first degree.
yeah this is pretty awesome imo
it's royalty free
Only if Engadget has their logo registered in Croatia.
BTW copyrights cover expression, trademarks cover logos, short phrases, etc. And while we're at it patents cover ideas/inventions. I wish Nilay would do a post where he explains the differences to educate you fools.
@Eric: Yes, we need a post like that.
AOL/TimeWarner owns weblogs and everything associated with it.
@ Eric: indeed. So a logo can be as much the subject of copyright when expressed as an image/written as it can be trademarked. It's an artistic work.
@cbw87: While this is facially true, and while copyright provides nice protection for artists (mainly because it's free), if you're using the logo to distinguish goods and services in commerce your best protection will be under trademark laws. Copyright is a messy, very gray area of the law. Trademark is much cleaner when the question is one of someone misappropriating your work.
It's because it reminds people of everyone's faaaaaaavourite browser!
Great another Apple logo scenario, but yea this time similarities are more concrete.
ahmm ahmm ... guys guys guys it's Croatian not Croation, change it before wise people start laughing :)
Fixed. Whoops!
wow he talks!!!
And here I was thinking he was just a head wired to a mainframe.
*Croatian
Haha, I do understand Croatian, but after about half a minute both my eyes and ears started bleeding! I guess I'll never know the true nature of what it is they actually do.
Greetings from neighboring Serbia... The bright and fertile land where preloaded windows sounds such as notify.wav get used frequently on national television, where local TV stations use the default FL Studio example loops for announcing a commercial break, or where wingdings are implemented in opening themes of TV shows... compared to that, this is actually B+ material!
@Engadget:
The show is co-sponsored by these guys (which is probably funded by the state): http://zaklada.civilnodrustvo.hr/frontpage
Make sure you let them know what kind of nutjobs they are sponsoring and don't hesitate to exaggerate about how much you will sue their ass.
Do you, of all people, really think that anyone can sue anyone for copyright infringement on crazy Balkans, and actually succeed at that? Balkan is a piracy heaven.
No. But what I do know is if some dipshit civic action group is braindead enough to use someone else's logo for their own TV show, they may be dumb enough to believe all that "we're gonna sue yer brains out" hogwash. Also, bad publicity is exactly what they don't need, since their funding source seems to come indirectly from the state.
@ingocnito:
we're talking about Croatia, not China!
Like everybody steals everything down here...
I mean, we are not Serbia, we use midi-sounds in TV =)
Lawsuit!!!
why is everyone so intent on suing each other on here?
that's what the great american dream is all about
This is not a lawsuit. This is a Sascha Baron Cohen stunt!
Imitation IS the most sincere form of flattery.
I know where this is going.. .they want a lawsuit s they come to US and can live there at least in prison....
they didnt even use the right font for the rest of it, maybe you could email them.
Are "Engadget" and its logo trademarked?
If so, is it only in the US or is it also trademarked somewhere else...
I doubt they have a trademark law yet over there, or an office to register stuff, and if they did it would require a personal visit I bet :)
They did it on purpose to get onto this site. Advertisement.
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Both look just like an RSS logo/symbol
i think thats the one that the techshowcase was going for by far.
Am I the only person who doesn't see that logo anywhere on their site? I am too lazy to watch their shitty videos.
I'm pretty sure the Engadget logo is a ripoff of the Montreal Expos.