[theme-reviewers] Theme Names

[Srikanth Koneru]

If you take a look at https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/report/4 you will
notice that the keyword name menace(premium photography, win8 metro style,
the magazine, bootstrap-on, sans-serif, mobile first, design furniture) is
growing and its purpose is to abuse the domain authority of wordpress.org
in Google, one remedy is to ask those theme authors to remove all branding,
credit link and pro upgrade links, that will certainly demotivate such
tactics.

This can be applied to already live themes too.


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Peter Kakoma <kakomap at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hehehe. Good points. Agreed
> On 27 Jun 2014 17:20, "Chip Bennett" <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> There are some huge differences:
>>
>> 1) Apple owns the entire App store
>> 2) Apple has an army of paid staffers to enforce their guidelines
>>
>> WPORG does not own the sole distribution means for Themes, and I would
>> prefer that the limited time available to the reviewers enforcing the
>> Guidelines be spent on things far more important/beneficial than conducting
>> Google searches of Theme names.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Peter Kakoma <kakomap at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I do largely agree with all that's been said, particularly what Chip,
>>> Emil & Bryan said. However, allow me to throw a spanner in the works.
>>> This isn't a new issue so we wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel. The
>>> Apple store has some guidelines and so does the Google Play store (and
>>> basically all stores that accept stuff from developers)
>>> To quote the play store guidelines: (edited to leave the bit that
>>> matters the most here)
>>>
>>> *Impersonation or Deceptive Behavior:* Apps must not have names or
>>> icons that appear confusingly similar to existing products, or to apps
>>> supplied with the device
>>>
>>> Checking if a name has been used before is a simple Google search; takes
>>> no more than 1 minutes I think.
>>>  https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=box+site:wordpress.org%2Fthemes
>>> One basically prefixes the search term with
>>>
>>>
>>> *site:wordpress.org/themes <http://wordpress.org/themes> *
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here's what I replied with to the other discussion (didn't realize
>>>> there was a bigger one at hand):
>>>>
>>>> "I agree, it's theme developer's responsibility to not infringe on
>>>> trademarks and trademark holder's responsibility to protect their
>>>> trademarks, but impossible for the theme review team (except for in
>>>> extremely obvious cases) to check for or inform of possible trademark
>>>> issues."
>>>>
>>>> That's the only logical solution. In other words, in the rare event
>>>> that this issue comes up, I'm sure it will be dealt with by the parties
>>>> involved or brought to WordPress directly to have the infringing content
>>>> removed. But, having the team go as far as to Google the theme name to see
>>>> if it's already been used or check against the USPTO would be insane,
>>>> that's the theme developer's due diligence to make sure their theme/product
>>>> names are unique and original, as in not taken.
>>>>
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