General trademark guidelines
You may use the VOTISODES trademark of Ballot
Entertainment, LLC (the "Company") to identify any services of the Company, www.votisodes.com (the "Website"), or your
User Submission (as defined in the Terms of Use) posted on the Website solely
to the extent there is an outstanding vote pending for your show on the Website,
provided you adhere to the following guidelines:
1. Your use is solely limited to the User Submission
that has a pending and outstanding voting period on the Votisodes Website.
2. The use of
the VOTISODES mark will not extend beyond the duration of any outstanding vote
pending on the Website for your User Submission.
3. You obtain the expressed written permission of the Company
prior to conducting any advertising in any print publications or on television
or cable.
4. You may not incorporate or include the Company’s
trademarks in your company name, product name, domain name, or in the name of
your service.
5. An appropriate generic term must appear after the
trademark the first time it appears in a printed piece, and as often as possible
after that. For examples, "Votisodes" must be used with "series", "show",
"website" or "episode".
See Proper
Use below.
6. Your product name may not be confusingly similar to
any of the Company's trademarks.
7. Your use may not be obscene or pornographic, and
may not be disparaging, defamatory, or libelous to the Company, any of its
products, services, or any other person or entity.
8. Your User Submission and use of the Votisodes
Website is in full compliance with the Terms of Use.
9. Your use may not directly or indirectly imply the
Company's sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your product or service.
10. Reference to the trademark of the Company may not be
the most prominent visual element on your product or service. Your company name
and/or logo, your product or service name, and your graphics should be
significantly larger than the reference to the trademark of the Company.
11. You may not shorten or abbreviate VOTISODES.
12. You include the following trademark attribution
statement: "VOTISODES and YOU SHAPE THE STORY are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Ballot Entertainment, LLC in the
United States
and/or other countries."
Third-party producers on
Votisodes may need to comply with additional guidelines. All other requests
require written permission. If other permission is required, please contact us.
Please allow two weeks for your request
to be processed.
Proper use of the Votisodes™ trademark
Trademarks help protect corporate and product
identity, and Votisodes™ is one of the Company's most valuable trademarks. By
following the below guidelines, you can help the Company protect the Votisodes brand
name.
The Votisodes trademark
must never be used as a common verb or as a noun. The Votisodes trademark
should always be capitalized and should never be used in possessive form, or as
a slang term. It should be used as an adjective to describe the product, and
should never be used in abbreviated form. The following examples illustrate
these rules:
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Trademarks
are not verbs.
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CORRECT: The episode was made on Votisodes™
website. |
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INCORRECT: The episode was votisoded. |
Trademarks are not
nouns.
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CORRECT: The Votisodes program pokes
fun at the Senator. |
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INCORRECT: The Votisode pokes fun
at the Senator. |
Always capitalize
and use trademarks in their correct form.
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CORRECT: The Votisodes series is
number 1. |
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INCORRECT: The votisodes series is
number 1. |
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Trademarks must
never be used as slang terms.
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CORRECT: Those who use Votisodes™ to
develop programs and obtain viewer feedback see their work as an art form. |
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INCORRECT: A Votisoder sees his
hobby as an art form. |
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INCORRECT: My hobby is Votisoding. |
Trademarks must
never be used in possessive form.
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CORRECT: The new features in Votisodes™
are impressive. |
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INCORRECT: Votisodes's features
are impressive. |
Trademarks are
proper adjectives and should be followed by the generic terms they describe.
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CORRECT: The program was made using
Votisodes™ features. |
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INCORRECT: The program was made using
Votisodes. |
Trademarks must never
be abbreviated.
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CORRECT: Take a look at the new
features in Votisodes™ website. |
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INCORRECT: Take a look at the new
features in VS. |
The trademark owner
should be identified whenever possible.
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Votisodes is a trademarks of Ballot
Entertainment, LLC in the
United
States
and/or other countries. |
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For more information on the proper use of the trademarks of the Company, please refer to the general trademark guidelines.
Use of Votisodes trademark in
titles of programs is prohibited
Votisodes trademark may never be used in the titles of
programs without the expressed permission of the Company.
