Dear Forum,
We told ShawnLeary, Cryptwho, Kosmost, Delaforetnoire the word No.
They cannot make a company and sell karmacoin shares or trademark or copyright Karmacoin.
These guys have been active for 6 weeks on a project.
It is their opinion that they have the right to claim the coin as their own because of the inactivity of others.
Imagine if the world operated this way - "in my opinion you have not done enough - so I am taking it from you."
Anyway - it is still a good coin and as you can see people have a lot of passion for it, which is why we believe it has a solid future.
The drama - makes for a good read.
Cryptocurrencys by default don't belong to anyone, so karmacoin doesn't belong to you. It doesn't matter what you say, those people are free to do as they please, if they have in fact trademarked or copyrighted karmacoin, now it is actually theirs.
Think about all of the people who invent a product, only to have it scooped up by someone else, who patents it. Guess what. The patent holder now owns the invention. Looks like you just got scooped.