I’m not going to challenge that if you can provide a link to some evidence that the phrase is copyrighted.

Personally though, it seems ridiculous. It’s like saying you could bulid a ‘time machine’, call it ‘the time machine’ copyright the phrase ‘the time machine’ and then sue the estate of H G Wells if they didn’t change the title of his novel and all references to the phrase ‘time machine’ within it.

Surely the phrase ‘virtual sex machine’ is generic and has been in use by science fiction writers and futurists for decades?

I don’t know the history between yourself and AEBN. Obviously this is a blog intended to promote RealTouch when it does eventually hit the market, and keep alive interest in it during the constant delays. I don’t mean to disrespect or demean your unique contribution to the virtual sex industry at all. It does seem however, that you are putting a spanner in the works of others who are trying to build the industry when you yourself are not seriously marketing your product. Are you actually selling your product? There is no way that any sane person would buy your virtual sex machine from your website. It really doesn’t seem to have been updated for years. In fact some of the gifs are missing. Any person who didn’t know otherwise would assume it is a ‘dead site’.

You asked me if I would volunteer to help re-design your website. Well I’m an affiliate marketeer with an interest in virtual sex and futurology and I only have a minimum knowledge of html and php. In fact I build most of my sites using wordpress which takes 1/2 and hour to do and which you could easily use in less than a day to turn your site into one in which at least looks as though is actually selling a live product.

As I said, if you can provide a link stating clearly that the phrase ‘virtual sex machine’ used in a generic context is copyrighted then I’ll remove the offending phrases as soon as possible (I’m on vacation right now). However, looking again at my post I can see why you object to the phrase ‘the world’s first virtual sex machine’ in description of the RealTouch. I will change that to ‘world’s first commerically successful virtual sex machine’.