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Interesting developments......
I agree with this woman. If this was regionally your idea and it was knowingly stolen, fight them in court, but next time remember copyright your idea, because the vultures are always out there ready and waiting to steal your goods from you.
Lisa Dublin should tell the truth and stop trying to deceive St Lucians. She must remember what you sow you reap. She is now reaping what she sowed.
" A verbal agreement"
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Such a complicated business arrangement; and you guys have a verbal agreement. Nothing in writing?
What a joke?
Im sad to you young entrepreneurs being strong armed by the bigger competitors.
Lisa may have to go back to teaching at SALCC or find another day job and let her husband run the business because they can't both be in that financial mess.
School of Hard Knocks says 'No confidentiality Agreement'? If not, you're well screwed.
You cannot take your business ideas to partners and financiers without this. You have no legal remedy when you do that.
For all the smart-ass people talking about entrepreneurship, this is one of the first things they should tell you about.
How many MPs have been elected in recent times that know one fart about, or are talking about getting a patent for your business ideas, and intellectual property? None! Right?
How then do those jackasses expect to motivate young people to come forward and start businesses without the necessary legal protections in place?
What we elect all the time is a whole pack of screw-ups who go shooting shate all about the place on political platforms and in the press, while putting the darn country into deeper and unnecessary debt.
Blogger above...lol-ing to my heart's content! How awfully true, your observation.
where is mighty mighty today,,,,,, another "making bread on de dead" story
the ghosts will always come back to haunt you all LISA, HTS and DBS
You want to stop the undertaker now? You want to stop the priest from saying mass for the dead years after burial, even when we all know that that person was a known SOB?
That proved far more costly than they anticipated, and it was even more difficult to make payments to DBS. As a result, their debt to DBS kept going up, accumulating over the period of two years to $208, 000.
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In the meantime they drive expensive cars to appear smart.
That proved far more costly than they anticipated, and it was even more difficult to make payments to DBS. As a result, their debt to DBS kept going up, accumulating over the period of two years to $208, 000.
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In the meantime they drive expensive cars to appear smart.
Dublin contends that DBS is not the only broadcaster that appears to want to take over her and her husband’s product. Another broadcaster is also running a programme that is almost similar to Telebituaries, she added.
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Aaaah this is so Lucian ...
Nobody does anything and when they see you successful, then they quickly copy you.
Dublin contends that DBS is not the only broadcaster that appears to want to take over her and her husband’s product. Another broadcaster is also running a programme that is almost similar to Telebituaries, she added.
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Aaaah this is so Lucian ...
Nobody does anything and when they see you successful, then they quickly copy you.
As a creative person I am following this case closely. It really will speak to our copyright laws in St Lucia and how strong they are. If you are employed with a company, you have an idea - you name, you implement - is it yours or the company you work with? If you have created a concept such as this, and someone else uses it without your permission, is that legal/OK? Instead of focusing on the personal can we look at law on this? This case may very well speak to how the creative industries in St Lucia develops
The crux of decoding this matter lies in the financial and other arrangements entered into with DBS. The explanation given in the article is very murky. Is this a joint parnerhsip where Dublin retains ownership of the creative rights? Is this a case where the right to air the programme was licensed to DBS? Did DBS enter into a sole agreement with Dublin for use of the of the copyright and other related rights? Was DBS solely responsible for sales, marketing and placement? I am not a lawyer but I am an IP law and management specialist. It is clear that this was entered into without forethought of how to manage the legal rights steming from the programme and how those related to revenue streams. The explanation given in the article seems to suggest that Dublin was paying royalties to DBS rather than the other way around. Very topsy turvy indeed. why didn't Ms. Dublin license her brand to DBS and enter into an agreement to retain creative control? In any case as I said the explanation given as to the arrangement between Dublin and DBS is very murky and makes no sense from a normative intellectual property licensing angle, or a business angle for that matter. It seems to be a highly unconventional business arrangement.
you can't copyright an idea, but you can protect certain creative products under other rights. you can trademark a name, which would prevent the use of 'telebituaries' or any similar sounding name that might cause confusion to the public. apart from being informal, this arrangement was hardly the most suitable one for this kind of product. sometimes, it is worth spending some money on a good lawyer/specialist at an early stage - it can save lots of heartache down the line.
still don't understand why this product had to be so expensive to produce... surely, there is software eg those used to create video presentations that makes this sort of thing a cinch.
I was also wondering why this was so expensive to produce. If it was losing so much money, that seems to indicate things may not have been well thought out in the planning stages.
It seems wrong that somebody else can use a name so close to Telebituaries. Wrong, but not necessarily illegal if the name wasn't trademarked. It will be interesting to see how this works out.
HTS was guilty of infringement when they used the same name, selling the same service as it is mentioned in the article that Telebituaries is a registered trademark. I have seen the registration myself.
Even adding an "o" still does not absolve them as they had built their programme on the goodwill and value created by Dublin's brand and are still selling the same service. From this perspective compensation is owed for the time during which HTS was trading under the registered mark "telebituaries". Further they would owe compensation for capitalising on the good will of the brand, whihc can be calculated and added to the previous sum mentioned.
In my opinion Dublin should not have sent a cease and desist order to HTS but should have sought to license her trademark to them and collect royalties.
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