Legal Problem: Trademark Infringement of Davinci Resolve TM?

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Legal Problem: Trademark Infringement of Davinci Resolve TM?

PostSat Oct 19, 2019 5:05 am

I'm sure others of noted that if you search for DAVINCI RESOLVE in Bing or DuckDuckGo, the first few hits (i) display the word DAVINCI RESOLVE, but (ii) link to nchsoftware.com/videopad and https://filmora.wondershare.net.

At the competitor websites, the download is not for Davinci Resolve, but for VideoPad and Filmora software.

On discussion forums, even in user comments on Davinci youtube tutorials, I have seen new beginners getting confused at having downloaded Filmora or VideoPad unwittingly due to this apparent mis-use of Blackmagic's trade mark.

See this site for relevant information:

https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-operations/issues-with-using-trademarks-as-meta-tag-keywords.html

Is Blackmagic corporation doing anything about this?
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Re: Legal Problem: Trademark Infringement of Davinci Resolve

PostWed Oct 30, 2019 12:27 am

Do employees of BMD read this "off topic" forum, or should I re-post this in the Davinci Resolve forum where I know BMD staff read those posts.
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Re: Legal Problem: Trademark Infringement of Davinci Resolve

PostWed Oct 30, 2019 10:01 am

You better send a mail to legal@ bmd. guess it will find the right channels then.

BMD employees here are moderators to keep the forum clean, and answer questions.. They might or might not pass this info along. ;)
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Re: Legal Problem: Trademark Infringement of Davinci Resolve

PostSun Dec 01, 2019 8:00 pm

My first two hits in DuckDuckGo were official sites, the third was Wikipedia.
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