Creepypasta has been trade marked

he also got flagged for telling people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x4oCuoGAhs

parasites

I've seen Vincent's work featured by Mr. Creepypasta and Chilling Tales. This is really surprising.

I myself listen to freakytortolini's on YouTube, I think it's good to have a hobby such as reading and listening to them. But I still have to ask, is this fucking real? How can you trademark a genre?

Can Liam Neeson trademark Action?
Pls be lie.

>>17338271
It's real. Search for creepypasta here. http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4804:h2qvug.1.1

gg burgerland

Pretty soon you'll have a paywall for Creepypasta™ threads.

Our ex-cucklord moot should sue them, since 4chin invented the term.

I don't see much point to worrying about this unless the trademark owners start going after people. I'm glad to know it might happen ahead of time though. I guess I'll start calling it something else to prepare.

https://youtu.be/gq8E7CWATlk

>>17338846
it's going up :-(

>>17338772
He flagged the videos for privacy to cover it up. I don't think he has good intentions with this.

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>>17338011

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>>17338985

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>>17338011
>creepypasta

A Common Law search should have disallowed the registration of "Creepypasta" as a trademark.

http://www.tmweb.com/faqs.asp#Q26

>>17338028

MCP also got in trouble because he didn't realize he can't just monetize other people's works without permission.

>>17338011
Will a wealthy Jew copyright memes next, or even pepes?

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What is this bullshit? Can we get a lawyer up in here, or at least someone who knows more about legal mumbo jumbo?

>>17339440
That's what I think, but I'd still like to hear an opinion from some sort of law talkin' guy.

Hello. Am lawyer. Just sit back and watch the shitstorm he brings to himself rain down. You don't have to worry.

lol you can't trademark Creepypasta, that's like saying you're trademarking meme(s).

>>17339848
its cheaper to hire some gypsies to stab the asshole

>>17339848
basically, if you cant prove you came up with the term, stfu you salty nigger.

we come up with a new term for spookyspam and tell this guy to shove glass in his dick.

>>17339848

Copyright attorney discusses the Fine Bros Trademark situation.
https://youtu.be/74ykxzNGspg

>>17339887
you don't even know man. soon we'll all be paying just so we can meme

It's not a strong enough trademark to stick to any youtube videos.

If it were made for a book or a movie or something, then maybe, but I doubt any book named "Creepypasta" would sell that well.

You can't just trademark a term like that. It has to represent something. "Creepy story" is not enough. it's like trademarking campfire tales. it's a useless thing to do.

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>>17338011

Well..

We can just rename it 'Spoopypasta' ?

>>17339467
>uploaded work to the internet
>people post it everywhere
>someone does a reading of it
>now it's a problem cause I wanna be a cunt

>>17339475
you can bet your ass someone will try.

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You're next pepe. Ugly green fuck good riddance

>>17343324
I'll call it spookypasty.

>>17343454
>google search stories
>read them for money
>no third step you're a retard

>>17338011
Oh well, I guess we'll all have to go back to calling them "spooky stories" like we used to.

>>17343496
lol

>>17338011
Those are some very, very punchable faces.

Apple is trademarked, windows is trademarked, essentially anything can be trademarked, and nobody will do anything about this.
Besides that YouTube will pull any video that they are asked to pull, and nobody will do anything about it.

Imaginary Property is a cancer that will not be stopped

>>17344004

Difference is that those are businesses. Trademarking a phrase for the internet is different. it might work if it already involves intellectual property, but beyond that this is literally nothing.

>>17338011
Easy, continue posting pastas, but instead call them "spooki spaghettis"

>>17344029
>>17344034
the point isn't to stop people from using the word, the point is that they will be able to do things like monetize other peoples videos, possibly strong arm people out of domains, and are the only people with a claim to shit like hot topic tshirts

This really does mean nothing for most people, but it is still absurd rent seeking,.where they are actively trying to profit off of others work, and cut them off completely

>>17338011
It's quite possible that it hasn't been trademarked yet, but is in the process of being approved. In that time frame, the public is able to give their opinion on whether the term "creepypasta" is viable to be trademarked, ie whether or not it's already a normal everyday thing that would be idiotic to try and trademark.

>>17339440
It could just be in the process of being reviewed. That's what the Finebros did. They applied for a copyright and trademark, and as soon as they did, they started flagging peoples videos.

>>17343645

These were trademarked last year.

>>17343590
>Muh work is being monetized off of after I posted it on a Wikipedia

Maybe you shoulda thought of that before hand. Hm?

>>17344252
Why can't I just put something out in the public domain because I want to share my craft? Why do I have to keep close tabs on my creations just to avoid having some asshole exploit them for profit?

Capitalism is supposed to encourage creation, not mongering.

>>17344252
It's one thing to read somebody else's story and try to profit, it seems like it's a bit much to take ownership of the entire concept of a subgenre

>>17344252
If I could write I wouldn't be spending all of this quality time with you.

>>17343324
>>17343535
spookypastry

>>17338011
That's it. I'm done. 4chan is dead and so is our culture.

>>17338011
What is house doing with that guy from big bang?

Also imma call it fearful earful.

Down syndrome house and big bang guy
This is why Hitler gassed tards

>>17344114

I don't see how they could possibly enforce this, aside from very specific products.

The Castle Productions one is for horror show broadcasts - but they've been done on YouTube for years.

The second is for books - I doubt that would apply to websites, so most stuff is probably safe.

>>17345205
>>17345227
I bet these faggots are thinking of suing those shows for characters who look similar to them.

>>17339856
cool name

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>>17343496
lol pepe is a complete exception to this whole situation. just like that pissing calvin sticker from calvin and hobbes that's probably on your busted ass chevy.

pepe is copyrighted artwork. everyone here stole matt furie's drawings, turned it into a dank meme (mmm so dank) and now you think someone else will trademark him?? AND you want him gone?

you're lucky matt furie is a chill dude for even letting you see pepe in the first place. now he's the father of one of the most popular characters of all time. so popular it makes you sick.

go get a copy of boys club, and cry about how you'll never be as interesting, or famous, as pepe. maybe your tears will finally bring him to life.

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>>17344828
Now I'm hungry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_wOhE4BzMc

You must understand Vinnie is a good goy who wouldn't hurt a fly.

Look, dictionary words can not be trademarked. Just ignore that it is trademarked and use it as the dictionary definition of a creepy story that is repeatedly shared.

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This is what capitalism does. This is what happens when you allow intellectual property to exist. This is exactly what capitalism has done since the very beginning, taking the collective wealth and endowment of the community and fencing it off for those with the means to get the government to enforce their new "property" against those who previously shared it openly. He tried to warn you. You only had to listen.

>>17339440
As if the technology-illiterate boomers who make up the US legal apparatus know enough about the internet to type a term into google before they grant a trademark for it.

>>17344295
This is exactly what the No Sleep podcast does.

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>>17346682
You're preaching to them

Creepypasta is a dumb fucking name anyway

Apparently this Slimebeast guy just posted an interview with the guy who trademarked it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNSZo0QoZMU

>>17346838
Apparently it's not an interview, it's just him addressing the video the Vincent guy posted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNSZo0QoZMU

>>17346848
This is good. This is real good.

>>17346848
>So you registered the trademark to fight plagiarism a year ago
>How much plagiarism have you stopped

OH SHIT

>>17346682
>communists
>man must never, ever own the sweat of his brow and the fruits of his labor

Who really hates the working class?

macabre macaroni

Copypasta
Creepypasta
Freakypasta

>>17346682

Somebody registered an unenforceable trademark so we should become communists?

>>17347064
I second UnsettlingFettucini.

>>17347043
Macabreoni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_wOhE4BzMc
>those comments sucking his microdick
This is the REAL creepypasta.

>>17338772
>guys don't worry about it until it's too late

t. spooky government man

Ugh, I was going to use this as the name for my Halloween-themed novelty spaghetti.

>>17347969
>asshole copyrights a word for literary purposes and sits on it
>a year later, in the middle of this Fine Bros bullshit a creepypasta author decides to look up if any bullshit is going on in this area
>said author who also makes yt vids makes an alert about this bullshit, unmasking the scooby-doo tier asshole
>asshole sees this and makes a video about how he's a good goy just trying to help the community while also flagging the call out vids
I'll take those odds.

Hitler was right all along.

>>17347983
SlimeBeast burns so many bridges and fucks himself so much and I love him for it

>>17346702
They are at least making something. Even if it is just a derivative work, it is something new. And I believe they get permission from authors, and producing it is some amount of work

These guys literally contribute nothing, and are just looking to steal money

>>17347246
Pretty much yeah.

>>17338011
Damn that is one ugly malformed fuck on the right.Look at those wonky eyes and tell me he doesn't look like he has problems. I bet he was mistaken for afterbirth. The one on the left is the king of faggoty shit-eating grins. I hope these shitheads get nothing.

>>17346682
communism=government is the one and only big capitalist in the country, stop with your jewish commie crap.

Bunch of cunts.

frightening fettachini

>>17346682
You know it's serious when Santa decides to weigh in on it

Look, the actual term "creepy pasta" is misleading: no actual pasta. Let's do as the anon suggested before and call them what they actually are: "scary stories".

>>17343324
How about Spooky Stromboli?

>>17352272
Unsettling Linguini

>>17339475
it's been done fool, its half the reason for new content. continued lulz and changing the meta ensuring the old shit fades into obscurity. I.e caturday dying when ihazcheezburgerz.com went up etc

Terrifying tortellini

>>17352247
it's a bastardization of copy pasta which is corruption of copy paste because every day is repost day. okay? but these faggots prob don't know that and if they do they deserve to copyright it cause it seems everybody fighting against don't know didlly tbf

>>17352283
I vote this

>>17344004
The Logo and not the word itself is trademarked
You can't trademark a word, it happened to a swedish metal band too (Ghost)

This just went up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oio1ylndLrM

>>17352945
Looks like the trademark holder didn't learn anything from the IHE situation

>>17344295
This. How can someone own the name of a sub genre that started on an internet forum years ago

Isn't he a bit late at this point? Do people still give a shit about creepypasta?

>>17353011
fuck yes. I love that shit.
There are several different types of people that come to /x/ but some (like me) come here for horror movies and creepy pasta and spooky shit exclusively.

>>17348871
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is a social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state.

> the absence of social classes, money, and the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

Communist Government is an oxymoron, it's like saying "bigotted SJW", "truthful liar", "colossal midget"

Don't conflate whatever bullshit Stalin and Mao pulled off with actual communist theory, with which those 2 assholes have absolutely nothing to do, they hijacked the name for the glory of their own power. By their logic you might as well have a steakhouse call itself "vegan's heaven".

Daily reminder that normalfags ruined creepypastas

>>17353193
normalfags ruin everything.

Nobody above 15 reads creepypasta anyway. I guess that proves that most of this board are underage shitters.

>>17353125
>"bigotted SJW"
>oxymoron

>>17353125
>Communist Government is an oxymoron

It sounds like communism is some kind of Platonic ideal that can never be achieved in reality.

>>17353958
Clearly you've never met one.

>>17353011
The good ones. But it's the principle of the thing either way.

>>17338011
Anyone can write horror short stories , though.

BRB, trademarking "urban legend"

>>17355064
>implying it isn't already taken

>>17344004
>>17344004
Apple got into a lot of trouble when they went into the music industry because Apple Records was an already existing company who sued the shit out of them. Apple only owned the trademark in the computing industry.

>>17347905
This is gold, 10/10 Anon

>>17339440
You're right, but that would mean that someone at the patent and trademark office would need to do work.

Unlikely, but still possible if in review.

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>>17355264
>when senpai notices you~

But seriously, there were a lot of other good replacement names in this thread. In the event that these dicks do get their way, and it's looking doubtful, we've got all our bases covered.

pretty disgusting, famiglio

>>17346715
>bishops wet dream

>>17343324
Spookyspaghetti

>>17355064
already taken I'm sure

>>17346682

This is an unbelievably ill-informed comment.

These twats need spaghetti shoved up their assholes.

>>17353602
>Nobody above 15 reads creepypasta anyway
Confirmed for never reading them back when they were actually good

>>17338011

I think copyrights mean little, people can still side step things and avoid mentioning trademarks if they're skilled enough.

The whole thing sounds moot to me.

>>17360178
>The whole thing sounds moot to me.

iseewhatyoudidthere.gif

>>17338011
This means nothing. As long as you use the trademarked phrase as a noun, not as an adjective, the trademark cannot be enforced.
Enforcable: I need a KLEENEX tissue
Unenforcable: I need a KLEENEX.

So long as no one publishes "CREEPYPASTA stories" or "CREEPYPASTA movies" it should be pretty safe.

Also, everyone here seems to think that trademarks and copyrights are the same thing. They are actually very different. There is definitely no way to copyright the phrase.

>>17339899
You should trademark that shit, Spookyspam™ ain't half bad!

SPOOKGHETTI

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>>17362815
>SPOOKGHETTI
spooghetti it is

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just call them something else, like... spookyspaghetti.

>>17363022
lol I posted without reading >>17362815

>>17352283
tortethrillni

gNOPEcchi

tormentini
creepellini
horrorchiette

i am having too much fun here guys

>>17338011
I hate their smug, "ironically hip" Jew faces. They deserve everything bad that happens to them.

>>17346715
>>17346715
Muslim's wet dream

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>>17346682
>Slimy jews trademark shit that doesn't belong to them
>Blame capitalism and tells people we need to change to a ideology that was invented by some other slimy conniving jew.
You are retarded mate. The problem isn't capitalism or intellectual property, its slimy immoral individuals that only think of themselves.

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>>17363095

>>17363072
First two are the best.

What about Frightuccine?

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>>17339899
No individual can prove they invented it, but we can prove that the internet did use that term before those guys trademarked it.

>>17363095
So conservatives

It's Spooghetti now.

>>17363593
does this mean we can petition for public domain, or do they get it for using capital letters?

>>17346682
Is there anything edgier than a communist?

>>17363247

Interesting graphic - still raises the question, can the system work?

The options are to file a federal lawsuit, petition to cancel the registration after three years due to how many extensions he gets, or send the holder a notice that we believe he's filed fraudulently and demand he cancel the trademark. So really we have no options.

>>17364835
The system will work as intended. It was not built in the common people's favor.

>>17363247
Near everyone on that list has killed. Everyone on that list has failed.

>>17364957

I'll break his fucking legs if he doesn't abandon this. See if I don't.

Slimebeast is a fucking cuckbaby who cries when people criticize his shitty writing.

>>17343307
It doesn't have to be strong with YouTube. All you have to do is file a copyright claim and the video will be taken down and your account loses proveliges, including being able to make a video longer than 15 minutes and monetization.

>>17338985
>>17339018
How do Amerifats think you can police this?

Could give benefit of the doubt, and say they trademarked them so no one else could and ruin everything...

It's a one in a million though.

>>17366070
Welcome to 4chan Vincent

>>17366735
Unfortunately;
http://www.justanswer.com/intellectual-property-law/96xz3-trademark-creepypasta-field-books.html

>>17366092
The trademark holder already filed privacy reports on the videos talking about his trademark.

>>17366070
one vote for the jews who get paid to read pasta and laugh like downies

>>17338011
What now? Are we going to bully Vincent?

>>17367640
Is that what you're hoping people will say?

>>17367694
Yes. I wish we could bully Jews together.

Who the fuck cares? In what way does this affect /x/? [spoiler]The answer is not at all.[/spoiler]

>>17367742
Once I trademark anonymous you pay for your insolence.

>>17367742
Imma trademark 'spoilers' quit infringing on my intellectual property

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>>17367757
>>17367769
You guys don't seem to understand what a trademark is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark

>>17367816
That has nothing to do with showing what a trademark is. All you did was show the words have been trademarked.

Like it matters.

Look... CREEPYPASTA.

Nothing happened.

>>17368144
Reported for copyright violation. See you in court

Humanity is pathetic

Look all of you bunch of whiney limp rag roleplaying spineless faggots

The answer is quite clear: everyone following the status quo blindly is out there trying to take as much as they can whilst brewing mad shit

Then at the end of the day, everybody doesn't realize that we're all being manipulated by the same people that brainwashes us so we remain overcommited to fight ourselves as a mean of entertaining our brains on petty trivial shits

>what is divide and conquer strategy?

Boycott everything that is from the mainstream, ignore authority, form tight bonds between our community so we can reach all the normalfags lurking here thinking they are superior that their ignorance is the cancer of humanity

Yeah, grammar and sentence structures are fucking bad but I'm writing with one hand and half angry/bored that i'm half bothered to type this whole rant against every intelligent sentient beings lurking here

>>17368183

>implying I'm not using public wi-fi and hiding behind 7 proxies to type this response to your post whilst simultaneously microwaving the laptop used in writing the previous message and getting a haircut at the same time.

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>>17344157
>review process

Noticed something interesting -

>>17339018
Toscono's Patent says "Published for Opposition" on July 24, 2015

>>17338985
Castle Production's trademark does not mention any publish for opposition date.

Perhaps the same opposition date covered both?

>>17339475
Well Pepe was already a trademarked character from an actual comic before he became a meme, so that's unnecessary.

>>17369947
I looked up what this means and I'm even more confused than when I started.

>>17367584
Absolutely disgusting.

>>17356841
Spookghetti

The trademark holder's lawyer just threatened slime beast according to his twitter

grab a snack

>>17372034
Threatened for what? For telling people he filed the trademark?

>>17372653
Apparently the trademark holder fears for his life because of the videos.

#PastaGate is on the horizon. How do we kill it?

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>>17373036
With fire, of course.

>>17372947
Slimebeast broke no laws, all the information he mentioned in the video was public information and he made it clear in the videos, he wish no malicious intent on the guy. His lawyer is full of shit.

The lawyers are shills. Their Twitter page is full of hashtag spam and terrible jokes. I don't think slimy has anything to worry about.

>>17354097
China achieved it pretty well. Brainwashed citizens starving in the streets, snapping and beating kids to death, manholes exploding due to lack of regulation, the whole 9 yards.

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>>17366694
The same way the Fine Bros got youtube vids taken down, durr.

>>17338772
>unless the trademark owners start going after people
if you do not go after people you lose the trademark and it becomes a common term meaning you lose the copyright.

>>17343307
actually if you trademark it as creepypasta specifically under videos you can. Apple computers copyright is just apple but its filed under computers

>>17373855
Copyright law is fuckin weird.

>>17373861
not to weird, like for example if I were to copyright the word master race for my line of computers and it gets approved there is a period in time which people can say I can not copyright it due to the fact in the public mind master race is a generic term, I then lose my copyright.

It has happened, band-aid is not the name of the adhesive strip for example it was a brand that become so common it lose its trademark, same with escalator brand escalators

Fucking hate the copyright system.

>>17373595
"Schwartz". Anyone surprised?

Trademarking creepypasta is completely antithetical to the concept.

>>17373855
>if you trademark it as creepypasta specifically under videos you can.

But people have been making creepypasta videos on Youtube for years, I think that should supercede it.

On the other hand if they wanted to make a brand of Creepypasta fashion accessories, or Creepypasta brand breakfast cereal, they'd probably be ok.

>>17375809
That's why the trademark for books is so troubling. I assume that covers any writing that people put up for sale since it could be called an ebook. Why stop authors from trying to sell collections of their work if they choose to?

>>17376046
yeah it means any form of book ebook or normal can not be sold with the term creepy pasta in it. It will not effect videos unless he claims it is an illegal adaptation of one of the stories which he can do.

>>17375039
Doesn't that mean black in german

>>17376889
Would an audio reading of stories for profit including youtube ads be considered a book on tape and then subject to the trademark?

>>17338011

You can't call them Scarystories© either, since I just copyrighted it.

>>17379432
You monster! (Or did someone trademark monster already?)

>>17353193

This. I'm a driver and I picked up this fucking plebbit manlet beta looking fuck who was going on and on about reddit and their subreddit creepypasta.

I was tempted to go off on his faggoty ass and tell him 4chan invented it, but I don't give enough fucks to bother.

>>17378513
yeah

I'm now trademarking the word 'cringe' because I've compiled approximately 0.001% of Youtube's cringe compilations and therefore have created the term and invented the human reaction of cringing

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>mfw this thread was made by slimebeast
>mfw he wants this dead board to be his personal army
>mfw he think the copyright threatens his chances of getting one of his stories made into a movie
>mfw he thinks he can get one of his stories made into a movie

>>17379493
>This. I'm a driver and I picked up this fucking plebbit manlet beta looking fuck who was going on and on about reddit and their subreddit creepypasta.
Who the fuck starts talking about creepypasta to a taxi driver (I presume)?

But yeah, I think creepypastawiki and other sites cataloguing creepypastas are to blame

>>17379493
>I was tempted to go off on his faggoty ass and tell him 4chan invented it, but I don't give enough fucks to bother.
i would pay to see this happen in real life. not too much, but i would definitely pay.

>>17352993
The concept started earlier than that with those old ass short `scary` copypasta emails. copypasta-copy+creepy= creepypasta

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>>17380592
> yfw slime beast raped you
> yfw so paranoid you see him everywere

Wait. Personal army? Have we been asked to do something? I've only seen discussion about the trademarking.

>>17366070
>>17380592
>spergy
>samefag

>>17338011

It shall henceforth be known as...

SPOOKY SPAGHETTI

>>17338011
Is the guy on the right a fucking reptilian?

>>17384835
Yup, dat jawline, those eyes....

>>17369987
bullshit

>>17364487
A facist

>>17375809

A lady invented and was making Cabbage Patch dolls for years. Guess what happened. Just guess.

Go on, guess.

>>17338417
>Our ex-cucklord moot should sue them, since 4chin invented the term.
Yeah, because that totally stopped icanhazcheezburger from existing and Hot Topic selling rage comics Tshirts.

>>17373869
>band-aid is not the name of the adhesive strip for example it was a brand that become so common it lose its trademark
Did it actually lose it? I know the commercials now refer to them as "Band-Aid brand adhesive bandages."

>>17387123
they lost it, band-aid is now a generic term for adhesive strip meaning instead of just their brand being called band-aid any brand can say their product is a band-aid.