Trademark
A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a recognizable sign, design, or expression which identifies products or services of a particular source from those of others, although trademarks used to identify services are usually called service marks. The trademark owner can be an individual, business organization, or any legal entity. A trademark may be located on a package, a label, a voucher, or on the product itself. For the sake of corporate identity, trademarks are being displayed on company buildings.
Usage
A trademark identifies the brand owner of a particular product or service. Trademarks can be licensed to others; for example, Bullyland obtained a license to produce Smurf figurines; the Lego Group purchased a license from Lucasfilm in order to be allowed to launch Lego Star Wars; TT Toys Toys is a manufacturer of licensed ride-on replica cars for children. The unauthorized usage of trademarks by producing and trading counterfeit consumer goods is known as brand piracy.
The owner of a trademark may pursue legal action against trademark infringement. Most countries require formal registration of a trademark as a precondition for pursuing this type of action. The United States, Canada and other countries also recognize common law trademark rights, which means action can be taken to protect an unregistered trademark if it is in use. Still common law trademarks offer the holder in general less legal protection than registered trademarks.
VDM Publishing
VDM Publishing or Omniscriptum Publishing Group is a German publishing group based in Saarbrücken, Germany, with offices in Argentina,Latvia, Mauritius and Moldova. Its book production is based on print on demand technology.
VDM publishing's imprints—Alphascript, Betascript, Fastbook Publishing and Doyen Verlag—specialize in publishing and selling Wikipedia articles in printed form via print on demand, in e-commerce bookstores. Alphascript distributes publications through several on-line book retailers. At least some of the books are printed by Amazon.com. As of November 2010, around 150,000 such titles have been produced. In June 2010, VDM started its own online-bookshop: MoreBooks! Publishing.
VDM's publishing methods have received criticism for the soliciting of manuscripts from thousands of individuals, for providing non-notable authors with the appearance of a peer-reviewed publishing history, for benefiting from the free contributions of online volunteers, and for insufficiently disclosing the free nature of their content. VDM responds that it is a valuable, quality resource, that the company has no problem asking authors for content, that buyers are informed of where information comes from, that books are a convenient form to collect articles about interesting subjects, and that its customers are satisfied with VDM's products. VDM Publishing is designated as non-scientific by the Norwegian Scientific Index.
CIV
Civ or CIV may refer to:
Podcasts:
CIV
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- Solid Bond: The Complete Discography released: 2009
- Thirteen Day Getaway released: 1998
- Set Your Goals released: 1995
Solid Bond: The Complete Discography
Released 2009- Set Your Goals
- Do Something
- So Far, So Good... So What
- State of Grace
- Can't Wait One Minute More
- Trust Slips Through Your Hands
- Gang Opinion
- Choices Made
- Solid Bond
- Marching Goals
- United Kids
- Soundtrack for Violence
- Boring Summer
- Et Tu Brute?
- All Twisted
- Don't Got to Prove It
- Blessed
- Glue
- Social Climber
- Sausages?
- Don't Got to Prove It (live)
- Can't Wait One Minute More (live)
- United Kids (live)
- Soundtrack for Violence (live)
- Can't Wait One Minute More (rehearsal session)
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It Seems All Those Days of Teenage Dreams of Cutting Class and Hanging Out.
Sitting In School,
The Clock Ticking Off The Wall, Making Friends and Turning On.
Living and Learning and Playing The Do's, Got Took Out of Your Time With
Not Much To Do.
Memories of Yesterday,
Friends Are Met Along the Way,
Memories Will Might Will Mean That's Now Goodnight Gone Quickly.
Times Have Changed, But The Feeling Still Remains, Days of Wonder,
Unanswered Questions.
The Day We're Going, I Could Finally Found Out.
Who I Am and Where I'm Going.
I'm Looking Forward To The Future With Lessons Learnt and With No Regrets
Memories of Yesterday, Friends Are Met Along The Way.
Memories Will Might We Need The Times Goodbye.
It's Goodbye So Quickly.
I'm Thinking of Faces and Remembering Times and I Know They Won't Be Left
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Memories of Yesterday,
Memories Will Might We Need,
Memories of Yesterday.
Memories,
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