Monday, February 21, 2011

Urban Homesteaders Day of Action



Someone copyrighted the words “Urban Homestead” and “Urban Homesteading."  

Lots of conflict has occured over the past 4 days because of this.

In an act of solidarity I am listing the URLs for the actual facts of what has happened.

http://urbanhomesteadx.com/wordpress/?p=1655

The facts about the copyright problems:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150094473207852&id=521887453

Lots more information
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/riding-fences-urban-homestead-trademark-complaints

If you are an urban homestead or urban homesteader, read the info and jump on board.

In honor of all my fellow homesteaders and farmsteaders I planted lettuce and some sprouts today.   Its time to plant and plan.

1 comment:

  1. Quite interesting. I don't see how words can be copyrighted???? What will be next? Thanks for letting us know. Does this mean that we cannot use those words without providing proper documentation? As a teacher a college research course, I wonder how to cite words. Curious. cheers. ann

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