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title: "ComPlexion and legal issues"
date: 2014-09-26
description: ""
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I've been working on an open source [Plex](http://plex.tv) REST library.  The idea behind it is to provide a simple way to connect to a Plex media server and get info on the currently playing movie or TV show.  The most important info being a link to IMDB - pretty much every time my wife and I watch something we dig out of phones to look up an actors name or what else we have seen them in.

The reason I'm developing this library is so that I can use it in an upcoing iOS app that acts like a second screen, providing these details in an easy to use way.  More info on this will be coming soon once it's more complete, but if you'd like to be a beta tester for the app then email me at jim@moomoo.io .

I named my library ComPlexion - simply because it sounded good, included Plex in the name and I'm rubbish at picking names so went for the first one I could think of.  However, I decided to have a read of the Plex legal pages with regard to their trademarks just to make sure that I named my app appropriately and email a link to ComPlexion to the Plex legal team just to verify.

As it turns out, they don't want me to use the name.  According to their [legal page](https://plex.tv/legal):

You may:

* Name your website, product, or application with something unique, that satisfies the other Guidelines.
* Feel free to include language on your site explaining that your application “Works with Plex”.
* Use “for Plex” following the name of your application, provided that the name of your application is unique.

You may not:

* Use Plex or derivatives thereof in the name of your application

So looks like ComPlexion is out.  I've renamed it to:

**RestAndRelaxForPlex**

Not the best name, but it abides by their rules.  It's not a huge problem, they have built a great app and ecosystem so it's only fair not in infringe on their tradmarks or imply that they are behind or endorse a third party product.

[The new GitHub repo is here.](https://github.com/jimbobbennett/RestAndRelaxForPlex)