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by riverlong 1235 days ago
This is not legal advice, but here's what I would do:

1. Recognize that they have requested exactly four specific actions from you (bullet points, second page)

2. Do not follow the 4th bullet point, affirming in writing any future conduct only opens you up to liability. (By affirming, you'd create some agreement that they could later make hay about you breaching if they're not happy with your future conduct.)

3. Follow the 3rd bullet point rigorously. They do have a claim on Trademark infringement, and that will hold up well enough. Clean it up ASAP.

4. Take a legal position on where you stand vis-a-vis the LinkedIn User Agreement.

- BrowserFlow (or Road to Ramen LLC) is not a party to that agreement, so you can argue that you're not bound by it. The individual person who is using BrowserFlow is, since they have a LinkedIn account.

- If you want to play it safe, remove the LinkedIn examples from your website. (Bullet two.)

- I would not change the existing functionality of BrowserFlow -- my view here is that this is general-purpose tech and BrowserFlow doesn't have an agreement with LinkedIn. Any consequence of misuse of BrowserFlow is on the end-user, not you. (As spelled out by the terms at https://browserflow.app/terms, which contain a limitation of liability section.)

Do prepare for your LinkedIn account to be banned though.

2 comments

> Do prepare for your LinkedIn account to be banned though.

From all the recruiter spam I've received over the years, I almost see that as a good thing.

Engineers really love saying this but I take it as a good thing. It's like audibly complaining that you get too many Tinder matches.
I think it's more aptly compared to complaining you get a bunch of Tinder matches from people you don't find attractive.
There's a difference between "recruiters reaching out" and "spam that doesn't match my skills or experience at all from recruiters that barely seem to listen when I tell them that and insist on offering me a job that's not even remotely a good fit".
It really depends on how you look at it. If I get a whole bunch of fake AI matches from Tinder, I don't see that as a good thing either. Unless of course, fake AI is your 'thing'...
If you invent browser which converts every page to pdf - you're in violation of some crap out there?
No, but that doesn't stop a company from having their lawyer send you a cease-and-desist letter.