Is ActiveRain going to get sued?

Hmmmm. No comments. I thought the same thing, but I usually don't question what someone else does with their business. However, if I think it can affect mine, then I'll analyze it for both its negative and positibe benefits. In this case, I thought the negative outweighed the positive. I do note, however, that none of the companies' logos are being used, only a section. That would seem to create a gray area, a gray area that I'm not comfortable sitting in.

hey Barry, I just stumbled upon this old post. Interesting points you raised. I wonder why comments were so scarce?

Well I wondered whether they had contacted the brands last week when I told someone in Real Living's training/ education about my outside blogs.... I had used the generic unbranded version at first but when I set up my second outside blog I tried on the branded Real Living version and loved the look... so I dressed up my older outside blog with my companies brand.

"Wouldn't they be respectively annoyed, angered, displaced, and concerned about ActiveRain offering a web platform that is taking valuable SEO traffic from them and misrepresenting ownership of a brand."

Is ActiveRain misrepresenting ownership of a brand or are they allowing agents from those brands to promote the brands? 

Are they pirating the brands?

Should I re-blog??  Or just wait and see....