Use of company name in PR 1010 Responses

Last post: 1 year ago | Thread started: May 14, 12, 12:36 p.m.

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• whatthefunk

  Question:
  I'm writing a press release for a start up that I've recently joined and I just reached out to a video player company (a service we paid for) and asked them if they wouldn't mind if we discussed our use of their video player including all social sharing, analytics, and html5 in our press release. We're doing a unique service for live video so we've been getting partners to provide a quote of our service and we include in a press release.

  This particular company called and emailed me to say that we cannot user their parent organization name, product name, or plug in names in any of our PR. I replied asking where I could view this in writing and does this apply to our blog, facebook, twitter, etc. and they responded saying they don't want us to use their name in any of our pr.

  Can they do this and it's not in our license, terms of user, or anything. WTF

  May 14, 12, 12:36 p.m. – Permalink

• zoozoo

  yeah.

  

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  Dog-earMay 14, 12, 12:39 p.m. – Permalink

• albums

  they pay for this particular privilege when they copyright and trademark all their materials and assets.

  

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  Dog-earMay 14, 12, 12:43 p.m. – Permalink

• whatthefunk

  As a paying customer I would think that we would be able to mention our using their product.

  • license likely doesn't permit that.– albums1/2

    mentions nothing– whatthefunk2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 14, 12, 12:55 p.m. – Permalink

• bjladams

  seems if they've emailed those instructions to you... you now have it in writing.

  

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  Dog-earMay 14, 12, 1:02 p.m. – Permalink

• fourth

  see what happens when you ask

  • +1– whatthefunk

  

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  Dog-earMay 14, 12, 1:03 p.m. – Permalink

• lambsy

  perhaps you're making it sound like too much of a partnership between your 2 companies?

  give us an example of how you're using their name in writing

  • yeah, share the PR with us minus their nmae– albums1/2

    or name, it's however you want to play it.– albums2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 14, 12, 1:05 p.m. – Permalink

• whatthefunk

  You would think "The World's Most Popular Open Source Video Player " wouldn't have a problem with a start-up mentioning them in a press release that focuses on the benefits of social sharing, video analytics, and previewing live video directly in a facebook wall.

  I'm kinda shocked actually

  

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  Dog-earMay 14, 12, 1:16 p.m. – Permalink

• albums

  they're busy being partners
  http://www.longtailvideo.com/par…

  • ://– albums1/2

    I neither confirm nor deny– whatthefunk2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 14, 12, 1:19 p.m. – Permalink

• bjladams

  i've read the 3-5 year success rate of start-ups is less than 5% (who know's if that's accurate)- i wouldn't imagine that larger companies would want to be directly tied to all those sinking ships... not that yours is- but they don't know that.

  

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  Dog-earMay 14, 12, 1:20 p.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  FUCK THEM, MOVE ON!

  

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  Dog-earMay 14, 12, 1:21 p.m. – Permalink