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Tom7777 ·
As you all probably know theres a lot of programs, synths and effects now days, is it ok to have the same product name as someone else for a synth or something or would that end up with me paying them a load of money?
Do all of you guys selling plugins have any info regarding this and also im guessing to sell products online i will need some sort of license for both names of products and selling online, any help would be great, thanks 🙂
skOre ·
If you don't sell your stuff, it would be ok, as you don't "use" anybodys invention (the name in this case) to add to your product. You are not particularly stealing from him.
Still, alot of companies get mad for this kind of stuff, and you should be safe if you don't use the name. Lots of Impulse-dbs for example use the names with a change, so that its not Fairchild but Fairson or something like this, to tell somebody that its actually the impulse response of a specific unit, but to not get into any trouble.
If you do make money you always have to be cautious as hell.
Tom7777 ·
Yes i was thinking this might be the case, what about all of those companys that use there company name within the actual product so for example -
Something Audios - Albino
ect, i wonder if that would make any difference (not that i plan on using that name) to this, theres alot of names i have thought of such as neon which i have then found out are already used already, its definately something thats quite hard to do i guess as theres so much stuff on the web these days. I think you have to register the names some way or the person that actually owns the registered name can use it as they want and would win if there was any aguments about the name of the product being used.
GaryG ·
I believe it boils down to how much competition you're likely to be; plenty of very different products out there with similar names (google a common buzzword like 'Focus' for instance and see how many different companies and products there are using that word).
Obviously you're problems begin if you step on someone's toes, trying to release another car called a Focus for instance.
In the VST world it seems people are more generous, two products both called Cortex for instance, though one a drum machine the other a guitar amp sim.
Personally I'd start inventing words like Aphex Twin or Autechre do. Or dig into some arcane old mythology and choose a few choice terms, get a nice thematic thread going that links all your plugs giving them identity.
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sambean ·
Could always try this..
http://www.gammadyne.com/rndword.htm
Guest ·
Yeah that should do it. LoL 😀 Nice one sambean
Tom7777 ·
Thanks all 🙂
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