Here's a question for you omnipresent/omnipotent pentaxians.
When I registed my website some months ago ( http://exposedfilm.net ), I noticed that someone else had already registered exposedfilm.COM ( http://exposedfilm.com ). However, their site wasn't up yet. Over the past few months, I'd check periodically to see if anything had popped up, but found nothing. I was kinda holding my breath hopeing that it would be neither a porn site nor anything too close to (and worse yet, much better than!) my site. Well, it finally popped up. It's a movie company. While I'm pleased with that (as if my opinion matters), I was kinda taken aback with the similarity of the logo. We both use a film strip, albeit different types of film. The only solace is that the orientation of mine is landscape, while theirs is portrait. After I thought about it some, the following question popped up: Given the similarity in name and also logo, are their any circumstances in which I should anticipate this being a problem? Personally, I don't care much about it... but as my imagination ventured off, I pictured them contacting me sometime down the line saying that I have infringed on some copyright / trademark law that I don't even know about... and all I'd be able to say was "but I was here first!"... Now *that* would bother me. It seems like we are both pretty small entities right now, but if they should blow up (not literally), then this line of question may not seem as unreasonable. What do you think? Side note: They're in Canada, I'm in the USA. Aside the side note: since they're the "com" and I'm the "net", they'll likely get more of my mis-directed traffic (not that I Have much anyway) than me theirs. That's crummy, too. I can't catch a break.
