Lizzie Borden Society Forum

You know I have to ask but how did this site come about? Whats its history?

I started the Lizzie Borden Society Forum in January of 2002, I think it was. It was hosted by a company called Arborwood. At first they were free, then changed to charge its customers for the bandwidth used. It was then that I moved the forum to part of my LizzieAndrewBorden.com site.

In its present location and form the forum began in December of 2003.

I started the forum only after the previous Lizzie Borden forum named Dark Rose went off line and out of business.

Many of the members here were members there and then when I started The Lizzie Borden Society Forum they joined up.

The archives (link at the very top of every page under the Society's mission statement) leads you to the past posts from when the site was on Arborwood. As far as I know, none of the posts from Dark Rose are available anywhere or saved in an archive.

As I remember it, Dark Rose got very raucous towards the end and I think the owner/administrator decided to turn back to her interests in Goth and her breeding her dogs rather than deal with the bruhaha.

This forum, I will proudly say, has been an almost entirely civil one. Thanks to the members here!

Does this answer your question?

Yep no doubt it does....I do have one more. Is the Lizzie Borden name copyright? I mean does any one have sole rights to use the name?

I can answer that. NO! One cannot copyright a name. One cannot even copyright a title, which is why you'll find songs, books and movies with the same names. Today in certain cases, families and/or estates can control uses of a deceased person's name or image for commercial purposes, but the name itself cannot be copyrighted. That would mean that anyone ever writing that name in print would have to seek permission to do so.

One could possibly register a historical name as a trademark. Sam Adams Beer comes to mind.

Trademarks and copyrights are completely different things, though.

I see what your saying because there is a band by the name Lizzie Borden...a lot like the Southern rock group Molly Hatchet who got their name from a 17th Century witch named Hatchet Molly they just turned the name around.

The band spells its name Lizzy Borden, by the way.

Can I ask you why you are asking? I was a librarian for a number of years and when anyone posed a question the way you have, almost always the person really wanted to know something specific but didn't ask it that way first. We were trained to conduct a reference interview.

Your query sounds like it is leading to something else you want to know. . . .

No not leading to any thing I was just curious and not up too any thing.

I didn't meant to say you were up to something. Sorry if that is how I sounded.

I am not a suspicious person by nature. Just wanting you to get the info you seek. It is the librarian in me, trying to pull out what might be a bigger question.

Yes, how about this one.............WHO KILLED THE BORDENS?

mbhenty @ Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:39 pm wrote:Yes, how about this one.............WHO KILLED THE BORDENS?

The killer did...................