[OpenID] OpenID business cards?

[SitG Admin]

>Hey Shade,
>I have to say I'm a bit confused.  Where are you seeing this legal disclaimer?

On the imagined business card?
"AOL and the AOL logo are trademarks of AOL, LLC. Yahoo! and the 
Yahoo! logo are trademarks of Yahoo! Incorporated. LiveJournal and 
the LiveJournal logo are trademarks of LiveJournal, Inc. Flickr and 
the Flickr logo are trademarks of Yahoo! Incorporated."

I could go on, but you get the idea. If a business card had a legal 
disclaimer for each name/logo it was advertising, that disclaimer 
could rapidly begin taking up a lot of space. Thus the desire for a 
disclaimer that would be short and never increase in length:

"Each name and logo shown above is trademarked to their respective companies."
Looking at a similar (but far more extensive) disclaimer at 
dollinfo.com, I have to wonder whether such a short statement would 
suffice. Maybe the question should be, would a URL where the full 
legal disclaimer can be found, suffice?

But you may have been wondering why I thought a legal disclaimer was 
necessary at all (or, "Where am I seeing the existing legal 
disclaimers on which I base this need for such text on the card?"), 
and while not all OP's have *registered* a trademark, this isn't (to 
my knowledge) *necessary* for a trademark to exist. Merely using it 
commercially would be sufficient. And if, as a sheerly hypothetical 
example, I begin promoting my business by capitalizing on the 
familiarity potential customers have with an OP (getting them to 
associate my business with that OP, in their minds), I imagine the 
legal team (if any) at that OP might have a few choice words to say 
about it.

Or perhaps I'm being overly cautious about this sort of thing. It's 
also free advertising for the OP :)

-Shade