Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

This story has some parody feeling to it :)

Just to recap:

1) Receives a take down notice for trademark violation

2) Changes name from "Cleaner Facebook" TO "Cleaner — for Facebook" :)

3) Gets surprised as taken down again

Let me suggest a few names _without_ Facebook in the title:

- Social facelift

- Clean UI

- Fresh look for social media



You got it wrong. I was never told what to do or how to change it so that my users would still recognize it. Also changing its name in this way was suggested (and accepted) for the Safari extension by the Safari Gallery Team.

If I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I can't fix it. This is not about TM infringement, but the total lack of communication by Google.


> If I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I can't fix it

Most of programming btw is like that. Google throw an exception with a better error than "undefined is not an object". Maybe it's easy for me from the outside to pinpoint the problem, but it's usually about reading between the lines.

Their support is indeed poor, but you are not entitled anything and probably the lesson here is not to build anything serious on 3rd party platforms where you are unsure about licensing, legal questions. I've been burned once by SoundCloud legal team for using their public API.


I'm not entitled for support when I'm developing for their platform ... and I'm supposed to be a sightseer 4 years in the future.. I'm gonna stop right there...


Devil's advocate: it isn't in Google's interest to give you legal advice.


Except "for X" way is suggested by Google in their "copyright infrigement" email.


I think you confused the mails ... it's not.




Consider applying for YC's Winter 2026 batch! Applications are open till Nov 10

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: