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I'm wondering how CCI got their hands on those emails...
UPDATE: San Diego Comic Convention vs Salt Lake Comic ConMatt Solberg, the owner of Phoenix Comicon and Bryan Brandenburg, co-founder of Salt Lake Comic Con will testify today in court today why comic con is owned by the people, by all the fans that experience the joy and celebration of comic con in cities all over the world. Comic Con is a generic brand owned by millions of fans around the country. Comic Con is a generic brand owned by hundreds of Comic Cons around the world. Comic Con is owned by the vendors that go around week after week, year after year to Comic Cons around the country and the world. Comic Con is owned by the celebrities, comic creators, authors, panelists, cosplayers, volunteers, and fans. It does not belong to San Diego Comic Convention. They have lost their way.Wish Mr. Solberg and Mr. Brandenburg luck today. I have tremendous admiration that he would step up like this. He started his comicon in 2002 and it is a great comic con. Dozens of Comic Con promoters are joining us and will file Petitions to Cancel the Trademark "Comic-Con". We have the legal right to put the name legally back in the public domain where it has always been.San Diego was not the first comic con, nor will they be the last. If for some slight chance we loose this jury trial, we will appeal until we win. There is an army of supporters for this cause. We could not in good conscience let San Diego Comic Convention walk over all of our friends and colleagues that run comic cons all around the country, and have so for years and decades. Thank you for all your support.Tomorrow are closing arguments in this case. Please be respectful to San Diego Comic Con. It is a great comic con with many great people involved. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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I see how they say SDCC was not the first comic con and i just googled it and it was back in March 21, 1970 so i read. So would this mean SDCC was the first one out of any that was before the rest that came along after ? or am i just reading the wrong info?
SAN DIEGO - Following a social media post seeking to rally fans near the end of a jury trial in a long-running trademark dispute, a federal judge threatened to throw one of the founders of Salt Lake Comic Con in jail if he strays during his testimony.While jurors in the case were out of the courtroom Wednesday, attorneys for San Diego Comic-Con read a Facebook post from the Salt Lake event to U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Battaglia, speculating the remarks could be a deliberate attempt to cause a mistrial."I think this is a highly inappropriate post," said attorney Callie Bjurstrom. "It is just a complete attempt to taint whoever they can reach."The post announced that Salt Lake Comic Con co-founder Bryan Brandenburg will take the witness stand Wednesday to show that "comic con is owned by the people, by all the fans that experience the joy and celebration of comic con in cities all over the world."Battaglia prohibited such arguments during the trial based on objections from San Diego. He warned that if Brandenburg intends to make any such statements during his testimony, "tell him to bring his toothbrush with him.""I will put them in jail if they violate this order. They are not to escalate this case into a war involving the world," Battaglia said.In an earlier order, Battaglia had also barred Brandenburg and co-founder Dan Farr from discussing the case, including on their personal social media pages. That order was struck down in October by 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which found it violated First Amendment protections of free speech."The circuit seems to believe people can say whatever they want in the world and in the media, but they don't get that privilege in my courtroom," Battaglia noted Wednesday.The judge went on to say that Brandenburg's conduct has been "outrageous throughout this case."The San Diego and Salt Lake comic and pop culture conventions have been locked in a trademark dispute since the summer of 2014.Since it first filed its cease-and-desist order and lawsuit, San Diego Comic-Con has claimed its new rival was violating trademark laws and trying to profit from its success. The case was filed after organizers drove a Salt Lake Comic Con branded Audi around San Diego during its annual event.San Diego Comic-Con, a nonprofit organization that has been around since 1970, has a trademark on "comic-con" with a hyphen, but was unsuccessful in its 1995 bid to trademark "comic con," with a space. The event maintains, however, that its trademark covers the term "comic con" in all its iterations. Its trademarked logo does not include a hyphen.Salt Lake Comic Con argues it was not using a protected form of the word, and that the term now widely used to describe similar events has become too generic to qualify for a trademark. The Utah event went on to file a countersuit of its own.Now, the case is in its final two days before a jury.Brandenburg is expected to be the final witness in Salt Lake Comic Con's defense.According to the Facebook post from Wednesday, if Salt Lake Comic Con loses at trial, it intends to appeal.This story will be updated throughout the day.
From SLCC FB:QuoteUPDATE: San Diego Comic Convention vs Salt Lake Comic ConMatt Solberg, the owner of Phoenix Comicon and Bryan Brandenburg, co-founder of Salt Lake Comic Con will testify today in court today why comic con is owned by the people, by all the fans that experience the joy and celebration of comic con in cities all over the world. Comic Con is a generic brand owned by millions of fans around the country. Comic Con is a generic brand owned by hundreds of Comic Cons around the world. Comic Con is owned by the vendors that go around week after week, year after year to Comic Cons around the country and the world. Comic Con is owned by the celebrities, comic creators, authors, panelists, cosplayers, volunteers, and fans. It does not belong to San Diego Comic Convention. They have lost their way.Wish Mr. Solberg and Mr. Brandenburg luck today. I have tremendous admiration that he would step up like this. He started his comicon in 2002 and it is a great comic con. Dozens of Comic Con promoters are joining us and will file Petitions to Cancel the Trademark "Comic-Con". We have the legal right to put the name legally back in the public domain where it has always been.San Diego was not the first comic con, nor will they be the last. If for some slight chance we loose this jury trial, we will appeal until we win. There is an army of supporters for this cause. We could not in good conscience let San Diego Comic Convention walk over all of our friends and colleagues that run comic cons all around the country, and have so for years and decades. Thank you for all your support.Tomorrow are closing arguments in this case. Please be respectful to San Diego Comic Con. It is a great comic con with many great people involved. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
There were comic cons before that. SLCC is showing a Houston Comic Con flyer from 1967 as part of their 'evidence'. You can see a picture here.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login