
The Force is strong with you -
but you are NOT a Jedi yet
Jedi Mind Inc has conceded that someone else might just own the term Jedi, and has changed its name to Mind Technologies Inc. The decision follows legal action from Lucasfilm, which reckons it owns the Jedi Knights and everything associated with them. The action will probably now be dropped. Jedi Mind Inc reportedly agreed to …
I wonder where the assets of White Star lines reside these days? Are Cunard* still around of have they been bought out too?
They should sue James Cameron.....
*As in:
Very smartly dressed sailor: "I work for Cunard and I am very well paid because of that."
Scruffy sailor: "I work my bloody balls off mate and I'm paid sod all".
This kind of Trademark/copyright infringement case really pisses me off. Jedi Mind inc were doing no harm to lucasfilm, nor were they selling products which competed with any products that lucasfilm are selling. They just didn't want another kid playing with their ball. Its sad and petty.
The word Jedi has found its way into modern language, and into modern culture. If someone says Jedi, most people know what they mean. Even my mum and dad have an idea of what I am talking about. If anything mind technologies inc were benefiting the lucasfilm brand. I know if I was playing with a Jedi mind control headset, it would really put me in the mood to watch Star Wars. I would be more inclined to use the headset with anyone of the many Star Wars branded games. To add to the experience even more, I might even go out and buy a Jedi costume to wear while I was playing Jedi Knight, with my emotive headset. All these things would make money for lucasfilm.
This is not why trademarks and copyrights were created.
P.S. I have purposefully spelt lucasfilm with a small 'l', because lucasfilm is small and petty.
... this is the real world, failing to protect your trademark can result in a loss of that trademark and then we could see a whole range of Jedi merchandise that has absolutely nothing to do with LucasArts whatsoever and is merely leeching of their brand.
Still, they may be easily startled but soon they'll be back - and in greater numbers.
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"products renamed to remove any reference to the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy"
When you say "the" galaxy, I hope you aren't implying that it is this one. The opening text of the first film was "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...". I can't believe there is anyone in the entire IT industry who doesn't know this.
The United States Department of Defense has delayed awarding a contract for its massive cloud project – known as the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) – until December.
The winners of the up-to-$9 billion project were slated to be announced in April. Pentagon chief information officer John Sherman told reporters on Tuesday the delay was needed as the work required to evaluate multiple proposals simultaneously is cumbersome.
According to Sherman, the contract could see four suppliers – Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services – each score a share of the project's substantial budget.
Google has given us all a new variety of cloud to consider: a "software-defined community cloud".
The advertising giant’s thinking on this variety of cloud starts with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology's definition of a vanilla community cloud as "infrastructure … provisioned for exclusive use by a specific community of consumers from organizations that have shared concerns (e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and compliance considerations)".
Google thinks community clouds built to that definition have "often … failed to meet specific objectives or required significant trade-offs for adopters" because they rely on physical separation for security.
Google has changed its mind about dealing with the US Department of Defense and is chasing a juicy chunk of the Pentagon's new Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract.
Remember when Google's motto was "Don't be Evil"? The Reg speculated about when it'd quietly drop that way back in 2013, and sure enough, by 2018 it was banished to the very end of the code of conduct. Called it.
There must have been some lingering memories of the slogan when Google dropped out of the bidding for the Pentagon's $10bn JEDI contract, saying that it wouldn't align with the company's values.
Updated The Pentagon has killed off the $10bn JEDI IT contract that Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, and others spent years fighting over.
The US government's Dept of Defense announced today the decade-long, single-vendor, winner-takes-all cloud deal would be scrapped.
"With the shifting technology environment, it has become clear that the JEDI Cloud contract, which has long been delayed, no longer meets the requirements to fill the DoD’s capability gaps," the department said in a statement to the media.
Oracle has filed a fresh petition with the Supreme Court of the United States, opening another chapter in its year-long battle with the Pentagon over the award of a $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract to Microsoft.
Big Red had been told by the Federal Circuit in September last year that the Department of Defense's failure to follow procurement law when it made the JEDI deal a single-award contract was a "harmless error."
The court also concluded that conflicts of interest relating to former DoD employees' relationships with AWS had not "tainted" the deal.
In another chapter to a saga that refuses to die, the US government has recommended [PDF] that the Supreme Court rejects Oracle’s efforts to overturn a Department of Defense decision to award the $10bn JEDI contract to Microsoft.
Acknowledging there were problems with the controversial contract award, which fellow bidder AWS is also contesting, these would not have affected Oracle’s chances of winning the deal, the government claimed in its brief. Security concerns over the geographic distribution of data centres were the main reason Big Red failed to win.
The US government asked the justices of the Supreme Court to reject Oracle’s challenge, saying that the Court of Federal Claims and the Federal Circuit had been correct in concluding that Oracle would need to show it had a “substantial chance” of winning the contract in order for procurement errors to be addressed.
Updated The ongoing JEDI pantomime took another turn today [PDF] as Oracle's challenges to the handling of the winner-takes-all $10bn cloud contract were rejected by a US appeals court.
Somewhat irrelevant to Microsoft, which was awarded the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract in October, Big Red's protest was related to an alleged breaking of the rules in how the contract was set up by the Pentagon, as well as allegations of conflicts of interest with Oracle's fellow JEDI loser, Amazon Web Services.
The lucky winner, pending all the appeals and stays, of the JEDI contract will be expected to provide America's Department of Defense with enterprise-grade cloud computing services over the course of 10 years.
A heavily redacted version of Amazon Web Services' latest protest against Microsoft getting the lucrative Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing contract has been unsealed. Unsurprisingly, AWS reckons the decision is total ███.
The decade-long $10bn single-vendor contract was awarded to Microsoft in 2019. AWS had been the presumed front-runner for the US military's move to the cloud and, after losing out, has been challenging the decision via the medium of lawyers.
The US Department of Defense conducted a re-evaluation over the summer and opted to stick with Microsoft, further enraging team Bezos.
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