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Re: Brickfair is official....
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lugnet.events
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Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:39:30 GMT
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In lugnet.events, Todd Webb wrote:
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In lugnet.events, William R. Ward wrote:
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Sounds great. But what’s the deal with the name change? Why does every
brick conference have to have a new name?
I don’t really care what name we used. For years, Brickfest was the
standard name for this event, but now I guess those are only going to be in
Portland. But sooner or later we’re going to run out of unique names for
these events!
It seems to me like there is a lot of duplication of effort and unnecessary
competition for all these events. A little more cooperation between event
organizers, starting with a stop to this proliferation of event names, would
be nice.
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The names are proprietary; they are owned by various people. The name
BrickFest is a bit debatable (I think 4 people claim rights to it) but one
person commands $3,000 fee to use it. I figured, “To heck with that, I’ll
start my own name and give $10,000 to charity first. That would be more
fair.” And that’s what we’re doing, and hence the name BrickFair.
Then there’s risk involved. Does Brickworld want to lend us their name just
to watch us fail and mar the BW name? ‘Course not. There’s other reasons I
won’t bore you with.
It’s really not competition. Over the past several months I’ve had great
support from other event participants, past and present.
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Well, I think it’s pretty darn petty to insist on a $3,000 fee. If Brickfest is
off the table, I would hope that we as a community can come up with a name that
*can* be used relatively freely. I do agree that certain standards should be
maintained, and that the name shouldn’t just be in the public domain, but if the
owner of the name would be willing to let it (and the corresponding domain name)
be used without onerous demands, financial or otherwise, I think it would be a
great service to the community.
Brickfair is actually a great name. But how would you feel about someone
wanting to use the Brickfair name for an event somewhere else in the country?
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| (...) Well this leads me to all the "boring" reasons I didn't list. Let's see here. Just speaking for myself, I dunno how many other fest leaders share my thoughts... 1. I would not wish to share the BrickFair name and watch someone else fail, thus (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| (...) The names are proprietary; they are owned by various people. The name BrickFest is a bit debatable (I think 4 people claim rights to it) but one person commands $3,000 fee to use it. I figured, "To heck with that, I'll start my own name and (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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