# Disney lawsuit

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disney-lawsuit/1511>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 28, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disney-lawsuit/1511 "2015-05-28T19:00:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![johntylerbush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@johntylerbush](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johntylerbush)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disney-lawsuit/1511/1 "2015-05-28T19:00:04Z")

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Am I the only person that worries about Elastic getting sued from Disney. Naming your products after Marvel characters seems like a slippery slope. Its not like you can hide from this list. It's surprising to me that the lawyers wouldn't be all over this. Just worried cause I really like Elastic and elasticsearch, seems like a huge risk just lying out there...

> <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/460e8d34fc5a492c8f1f8775506921455d2e0a31/src/main/resources/config/names.txt>

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**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disney-lawsuit/1511/2 "2015-05-28T19:26:02Z")

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I'm not a lawyer but I suspect this falls into clause four of fair use laws  
in the US. Outside the US, I dunno.

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**Author:** ![johntylerbush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@johntylerbush](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johntylerbush)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disney-lawsuit/1511/3 "2015-05-29T04:02:49Z")

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Yeah I'm no lawyer either, I would be concerned about #1. I'd agree about #4 in the open source domain, but once you start naming your products: shield , watcher, marvel?

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disney-lawsuit/1511/4 "2017-07-06T00:10:57Z")

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