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So I try not to put too much of the politics on dreamwidth and reserve my politics rage/rants for Twitter, but this concerns a lot of folks here and is also just...outrageous. Egregious. Many adjectives.
A non-profit (@InvDisability) has trademarked the term "invisible disabilities" and apparently is enforcing it by stopping disabled individuals and organizations from using the term. ALL THE RAGE.
There is a Storify of tweets about it for more info.
There is a Change.org petition (with a sadly small number of signatures) to end the trademark of an identity.
If you can, please help signal boost, as I am currently low on spoons.
A non-profit (@InvDisability) has trademarked the term "invisible disabilities" and apparently is enforcing it by stopping disabled individuals and organizations from using the term. ALL THE RAGE.
There is a Storify of tweets about it for more info.
There is a Change.org petition (with a sadly small number of signatures) to end the trademark of an identity.
If you can, please help signal boost, as I am currently low on spoons.
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Date: 2016-08-09 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-09 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-09 05:25 pm (UTC)If I was the Avatar, the rage I feel would trigger Avatar form and some sort of massive whirlwind of destruction.
Or perhaps more aptly, if I were Toph there would be MUCH EARTHBENDING.
(note to self: get Toph icon)
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Date: 2016-08-09 05:44 pm (UTC)And, yeah. I have an icon for this...
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Date: 2016-08-09 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-09 11:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-09 05:50 pm (UTC)I mean, at least it's a trademark rather than a copyright, but still. Ain't no one got time for that bullshit, especially not the disabled.
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Date: 2016-08-09 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-09 05:53 pm (UTC)Also your crossposts lost the link, so I commented on both posts with it.
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Date: 2016-08-09 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-10 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-10 02:14 pm (UTC)Uuuugh. Signed.
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Date: 2016-08-10 08:29 pm (UTC)Searching the USPTO for the trademarks involving invisible disabilities, you can see here (by doing a basic search for "invisible disabilities") that "The Invisible Disabilities Advocate" and "Invisible Disabilities" are trademarked by IDA, but you also have "The Invisible Disabilities Project" that also has a trademark. Could "The Invisible Disabilities Project" say something about "Invisible Disabilities" just being too broad to trademark?
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Date: 2016-08-20 04:40 pm (UTC)according to this medium article, the IDA has used the trademark to have Facebook pull some other advocacy groups for trademark infringement (although they have been reinstated).
I think now people are generally pissed at how problematic the IDA is in general and are looking for ways to get this ridiculous trademark off the books.
still trying to figure out HOW it was even approved tbh.