Seven Towns vs. Dayan - Color Scheme Copyright Infringment

[qqwref]

Where do I get one of these?

I looked and I'm not sure where to separately buy these, but I do remember in the past certain types of stickers (PVC?) coming with one. It's basically a piece of transparent plastic that comes over the stickers, and they all attach to it by static electricity. Sorry I can't be more helpful here.
EDIT: Ha, ninja'd. See onlyleftname's post above.

I don't think it's that big of a deal but even if it is a legitimate legal claim it just seems petty of Seven Towns.

It does - but they may be following the legal doctrine that certain intellectual properties lose their power if you fail to prosecute a violation that you know about. So I wouldn't be too harsh on them for this in particular.

 

[Kian]

Nobody has the right to be indignant about Seventowns defending their copyright/trademark rights. End of story.

 

[Cool Frog]

I swear 10% of people like purple. I am glad I like it.

I am totally set

Changed my color scheme for kicks and giggles, and my times are still the same.. this is good stuff.

support cubesmith, buy orange stickers

Cubesmith, and coming to love Izo-stickers.

 

[StachuK1992]

It's not nearly as big of a deal as we're making it.
I just wish it were black instead of orange

 

[emolover]

I am totally set

Changed my color scheme for kicks and giggles, and my times are still the same.. this is good stuff.

Cubesmith, and coming to love Izo-stickers.

That makes me a little bit mad since I got a bunch of cubesmiths about two days ago. I suppose I will buy $10 in purple for my main cubes.

 

[masterofthebass]

Nobody has the right to be indignant about Seventowns defending their copyright/trademark rights. End of story.

some of the hypocrisy between Seventowns and V-Cubes is mind boggling...

 

[pjk]

I don't think this will be a big deal. People will re-sticker their cubes how they want, regardless to how they purchase them - and I don't think there will be any shortage of orange stickers anywhere...

 

[Dillonzer]

I used a white tile cube, so black is opposite yellow. If anyone is really troubled by this, they could get a white cube and keep orange, since black - yellow != white - yellow, even though it is still a colour change, i would prefer black over purple. Nonetheless, go buy a set of stickers of orange, because they can't take orange off the market. Or maybe just include a sticker set with the cube and make the price 2 more dollars, my god so much money, and if you can't resticker very straight, get a tile cube with a different set of tiles.

 

[Carson]

Speedsolving.com logo beware...

 

[MalusDB]

Maybe they can just sell them without the stickers applied all the time, and leave it up to us on what the CS is, no?

This was my initial thought. They can't lay claim to the actual colours so if the companies (assuming this will actually move beyond dayan to other brands) decide to send them unstickered there is literally no problem. I know this would be my plan of action if I was DaYan right now.

 

[qqwref]

some of the hypocrisy between Seventowns and V-Cubes is mind boggling...

I'm interested - what happened?

 

[SoupFlies]

I hate orange, this is just Dayan conforming to my mandate. Purple is my favorite color so.... YAY. I am happy!

Please feel free to send me all of your purple stickers =]

I think we should all just look into the idea of stickering cubes ourselves (I already have to worry about the stickers of every single Lubix cube that is shipped)

 

[Andreaillest]

LOL this is worse than when I heard Verdes was suing a pillow company for copying it's pillowed design. Omg I literally thought this was a joke.

What exactly are they hoping to achieve with this? Do they think people will all of a sudden start buying Seventowns cubes and stop buying Dayans because of something they can easily change? *****s.

Exactly what I was thinking. I mean, I understand it's not too much of a big deal since we can all just replace the stickers and support, but wtf does Seventowns get out of this? The only people who buy Dayans are actual speedcubers. Like we're going to drop these cubes because of a sticker issue. Dayan just can't catch a break. This is just ridiculously funny.

 

[Pixel 6]

A side observation... if Dayan were to be building these advanced "knock-off" cubes, and were to then put a counterfeit Rubik's brand logo on the cube, I could understand.

But all these companies... C4U, Alpha, Mefferts, Dayan etc... putting in countless hours of dedication, development, and improvement to an archaic design of a cube to develop cubing into the sport that it is now... I don't see how it's even remotely in the knock-off category anymore. It'd be like Henry Ford going after the makers of the Bugatti Veyron for "stealing" his ideas, and creating a cheap knock-off of the model T.

What Rubik's has not done, is develop their puzzle, and advance it with the changing world. It's a dinosaur of a legacy. That being said, my hat's off to Erno for getting it into the market in the first place. But to deny development, advancement, and change for the sake of a brand recognised Billion dollar company???

I don't understand it.

I do get that from an untrained eye, the external differences between a Dayan cube, and a Rubik's cube is similar, and that a Dayan cube could appear to be a Rubik's cube. So this is where the same color scheme comes into play?

Maybe if orange is replaced with purple, the random wide-eye passer bye watching a person solve a cube will finally be able to spot the difference. With that, Seven Towns can sleep easy, knowing that it is easier for people to spot these cheap knock-offs because of their purple stickers.

- Pixel -

 

[hcfong]

I don't really understand what Seventowns is trying to get out of this. In my opinion, it's all down to what you're used to. Current speedcubers will simply buy loads of stickersets in their current colour scheme and continue to use it. New speedcubers don't know anything else than the new colour scheme and will simply start with the new one. As long as Seventowns don't start developing proper speedcubes, speedcubers will always turn to Dayan or other speedcube manufacturers.

 

[Kirjava]

Hells yes, hopefully now dayan will be producing cubes with purple plastic. I've wanted one since forever.

 

[Bapao]

Bah. Purple plastic on stickerless cubes

At least people have stopped trying to shut DaYan down completely. This is certainly a big deal, but not really a big problem IMO.

 

[izovire]

The color scheme that Rubik's has Copyrights to, is: White - Yellow, Blue - Green, Red - Orange.

Rubik's actually uses: White - Brimstone Yellow, Brilliant Blue - Light Green, Red - Pastel Orange

Dayan uses: White - Yellow, Blue - Green, Red - Pastel Orange

(I'm being specific with vinyl colors)

I also think that Seventowns is trying to 'widen' the field goal so they have a better shot at shooting down cube manufacturers. I read the copyright/trademark somewhere (I now forgot) that it's only Red next to Green. But they've gone far enough now to where customs can seize black plastic DIY kits regardless if there are any colored stickers involved... this will only happen to bulk shipments of DIY cubes though.

I emailed a legal person for the company and he said single cubes in the mail won't get seized... and aren't a problem... but they are hunting down KO manufacturers, not sellers.

As for me, I'm not at all concerned as long as cubes continue to be produced...

 

[Godmil]

seems like Seven Towns are just causing a minor inconvenience to everyone... seems kinda pointless unless they're really concerned about watering down their trademark.
I guess I better buy a coloured Zhanchi now before they switch the plastic.

 

[Goosly]

This makes no sense at all. Why don't they do the same with V-cube, LanLan, Witeden, ...?
I suggest Dayan stops stickering the cubes themselves, and just send the set of stickers with the cube. I don't want purple stickers