Cosplay Saga!
Really too free liao these people....and too much money to waste, hey hey, dont try to point out to the government that we have too much money to spend ok!
Well well, as far as I know cosplay in Singapore came to light after a few J-rock events in Singapore, and the Street Fest was a very important event where cosplayers gather together to cheer for the J-rock gigs. I know the anime club organised earlier activities but how much does people know about those activities? The fact is there and you people should know. The intention here is not to raise out who started the cosplay activities in Singapore but to state that the Streer Fest is an important event where Cosplayers can openly exhibit the hobby by parading down the town, it is a day to ourselves! Please don't kill it, and don't kill Cosplay in Singapore.
I don't really understand the intention of trademarking Cosplay. For Trademark is "a symbol, word, or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company or product" stated in the dictionary. How does Cosplay represent a company and how is it seem as a product? If Cosplay is registered to represent the Singapore Cosplay Club, it hence become a commercialised activity. We does have commercialised activities like golf, air firing, sailing etc, where members and fees were applicable for the need to control. Every one understands that these activities need specific venue and training, as there are element of danger or threat if misuse of the activities were carried out. (Ok, dont ask me where is the danger, I believe you people are not stupid.) However, commercialised activities did not undergo any trademark registration, Its the organisation that supports the activities being registered and trademark to prove its eligibility. So any one to explain in what way Cosplay prove a threat to people and need to be registered under a company, and to be done under a specific venue?
To register a trademark you need to provide a logo or word that defines the mark. How are you going to picture Cosplay and by the word Cosplay itself is a generic term to all Cosplayers in Singapore, so how are you going to define it? To use apple as an example, you mean the Apple company for Machitosh? They have a defined logo of an apple where someone has bitten it on the right side (haha, just joking), everyone would know that is the delicious trademark for Apple, and that trademark is only for the use for Apple, imitation of that trademark is hence illegal. But the word apple is generic, its already there since the sacred garden of Adam and Eve, but did Apple make a fuss out of people selling apple and talking apple? NO. And apple as a generic term is not registered for the sake that people would mistaken it for a pear.
In layman terms, just forget about registering "Cosplay", just make it free, as what its always is.
Really too free liao these people....and too much money to waste, hey hey, dont try to point out to the government that we have too much money to spend ok!
Well well, as far as I know cosplay in Singapore came to light after a few J-rock events in Singapore, and the Street Fest was a very important event where cosplayers gather together to cheer for the J-rock gigs. I know the anime club organised earlier activities but how much does people know about those activities? The fact is there and you people should know. The intention here is not to raise out who started the cosplay activities in Singapore but to state that the Streer Fest is an important event where Cosplayers can openly exhibit the hobby by parading down the town, it is a day to ourselves! Please don't kill it, and don't kill Cosplay in Singapore.
I don't really understand the intention of trademarking Cosplay. For Trademark is "a symbol, word, or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company or product" stated in the dictionary. How does Cosplay represent a company and how is it seem as a product? If Cosplay is registered to represent the Singapore Cosplay Club, it hence become a commercialised activity. We does have commercialised activities like golf, air firing, sailing etc, where members and fees were applicable for the need to control. Every one understands that these activities need specific venue and training, as there are element of danger or threat if misuse of the activities were carried out. (Ok, dont ask me where is the danger, I believe you people are not stupid.) However, commercialised activities did not undergo any trademark registration, Its the organisation that supports the activities being registered and trademark to prove its eligibility. So any one to explain in what way Cosplay prove a threat to people and need to be registered under a company, and to be done under a specific venue?
To register a trademark you need to provide a logo or word that defines the mark. How are you going to picture Cosplay and by the word Cosplay itself is a generic term to all Cosplayers in Singapore, so how are you going to define it? To use apple as an example, you mean the Apple company for Machitosh? They have a defined logo of an apple where someone has bitten it on the right side (haha, just joking), everyone would know that is the delicious trademark for Apple, and that trademark is only for the use for Apple, imitation of that trademark is hence illegal. But the word apple is generic, its already there since the sacred garden of Adam and Eve, but did Apple make a fuss out of people selling apple and talking apple? NO. And apple as a generic term is not registered for the sake that people would mistaken it for a pear.
In layman terms, just forget about registering "Cosplay", just make it free, as what its always is.
posted by mourn di at 10:46 PM
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