Legalities around calling our event a 'Decompression'
Erin Jeavons-Fellows
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According to the Burning Man website (link below), “Decompression”—is a trademark name only permitted for official events of Burning Man and the Burning Man Regional Network, which are contractually obligated to uphold certain principles."
It has come to our knowledge that Kiez Burn is not an official Burning Man regional event despite being the 3rd largest burn event in Europe but Holger (our Regional BM representative) is in discussions of making this happen.
Holger and Erin have been in discussions around this. The easiest way would be just to leave out the term "Decompression". But since there is also the idea to make Kiez Burn an official event, why not trying it with the Decompression? Holger has looked up the criteria (also attached) for official regional events, and he believes that they will apply also for the Decompression.
ACTION POINTS:
1. For now, we will remove the name Decompression in our event name to stop further people bothering us or action.
2. James and Daisy will reach out to BM and work on making the Decompression, if its possible with the time we have left before our event.
Use this thread to keep those interested updated
https://burningman.org/network/about-us/press-media/trademarks-images-faq/
Franzi Mon 7 Oct 2019 3:19PM
Hey @jamesfish Kiez Burn e.V. is officially involved since we signed the contract with the venue :)
walto · Wed 28 Aug 2019 5:17PM
such a topic would be for the general assembly of the Kiez Burn e.V. More info: https://kiezburn.org/kiez-burn-e-v-association/ and no, no such decision has been made yet.