Sometimes, a big sky can turn out to be a little sky. What drew me to this one was the wisps of cloud, almost forming a halo over a barn on Route 68 in Vermont. I like calling it a little sky, this may appease our friends from Vermont who complain that my sky is peanuts and that the very words Big Sky are the property of Montana.
This sky is different, quiet, and graceful.
Your tm v. Copyright discussion is erroneous.
Eg there are other ways to get damages, statutory “presumed” damages….
But no one is going to confuse a hobby farmer with those ranchers .
https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4808%3Axml7r7.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=%22big+sky%22&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query
Don’t be defensive: You claim way too much competence.
Margot, what a lazy post. If you read the blog at all you would know I claim and have no competence at all for the law. That’s why I have such a good lawyer, who, unlike you, does his homework and knows what I do think and gives me useful, not linked, advice. You are essentially telling me what I wrote and have been told.
I am not a lawyer and have no desire to be one, which is why I have such a good one, who has been working in copyright and intellectual property law for years. He is still chuckling over your post, an argument for paying people who know what they are doing.
The lawyers I trust don’t pass out free advice to strangers they know nothing about on social media. That does not feel ethical to me. Curious that people are always telling me things I have not said or do not believe are erroneous or inaccurate. This, I think, is because people only read Facebook headlines, but rarely what is written beneath them.
In our world, there is a link for every point of view ever. I don’t use them, I prefer to think for myself.
If you paid any attention at all before you bloviate, you would know I am no kind of farmer, hobby or otherwise. I’m an author and a blogger, which makes me even less likely to be confused with a rancher, whatever good that does us.
Don’t be pompous or patronizing, Margot, that is not effective or persuasive, and do some research yourself, thanks. You make a good case for being defensive.
You again and agajn overreach: the link is to uspto TESS .
A list of registered USA trademarks. Just a list. No statemenrs of the law.
You make mountains ouf of small points. Your ego is too fragile for non teenagers. Youre right to think only the uninformed read your blog.
Bart, I have no idea what you are talking about, as so often happens with comments from strangers who have nothing better to do than send whiny and snarky messages to people they don’t know.(again and again.)
I didn’t read that link, and as I wrote, I don’t pay much attention to links; we can all find one for everything we want to argue about. I don’t care what it says. You managed to completely miss the point of what I wrote, an underreach it seems.
You prove your point well – the uninformed love to post comments on my blog, like you, too often about posts they haven’t read.
Stop wasting both of our time, and please find something meaningful to do with your life.
This is simple chickenshit, of no use to anyone Please do us both a favor, if I am so shallow, why are you reading the blog at all? Please take yourself elsewhere and your huffy messages to people who want to read them. It’s my blog, I run it and pay for it, and I will write what I wish in the way I wish.
I don’t need your blessing and didn’t ask for your opinion. Best jon
Your tm v. Copyright discussion is erroneous.
Eg there are other ways to get damages, statutory “presumed” damages….
But no one is going to confuse a hobby farmer with those ranchers .
https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4808%3Axml7r7.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=%22big+sky%22&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query
Don’t be defensive: You claim way too much competence.
This whole topic is very funny to me (well, except for the abuse you regretfully receive). I grew up in British Columbia, where the slogan on the license plates is “Beautiful British Columbia”. Yes, BC is exceptionally beautiful. Does that mean I can’t also say Beautiful Ontario to describe the province where I now live? I don’t think anyone has ever suggested that!.
Where I grew up in BC, surrounded by hills and majestic mountains, the sky was quite small. Now I live in a place like yours, in big sky country. I’ve used that phrase for many years, not knowing that it “belonged” to Montana. I might also have a million photographs of the ever-changing and beautiful sky.
Grumpy people are everywhere. It hurts when they lash out even though I know it is never (never!) about us. I’m a sensitive sort, and I used to think my skin was way too thin to be open and vulnerable. I’ve been reading your blog for a long time and I want to tell you that I have learned a lot from your willingness to be just that. Just yesterday, I wrote a note to some people, where I left in a bit of vulnerability. Normally I would write the note, then reread it to remove anything remotely vulnerable, the words that might trigger some ridicule. (I grew up with lots of ridicule, masked as “teasing”). Yesterday I left my vulnerable words in, and sent off my note. To me, this tiny act shows growth, and I thank you for your contribution to that.
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What is there to say–you are a gentleman.
That’s a nice thing to say..
Oh, the nit pickers! Speaking of, you might change the typo, “Montano” to “Montana.”
Nah, just leave it! ?
Happy to fix it, Georgeann, thanks for the heads. My proofreading software is making as many mistakes as I did, sometimes more. And I make plenty.
Shoot, you do great. It can make us think about what you’re writing when you do have a typo or two. We all make them, at least, those of us who are human and keep going. I do resist pointing them out – my mother taught Language Arts and I had her as a teacher in 6th and 8th grades. She was a kind and understanding teacher, but instilled in me a love of reading and correct grammar. As an adult, I’ve learned to overlook simple mistakes, many of which are from autocorrect! Makes getting along with others a lot easier.
I appreciate the corrections, Georgann, especially when not accomplished by personal insults. I write a lot (have a lot of dyslexia) and make a lot of mistakes. When they are pointed out to me, and when they are actually mistakes, I correct them instantly and am grateful. I’m not looking to be the New York Times, I don’t have a hundred editors waiting to polish my work up.