Hi all.
I am currently working on a pet project of mine. This project is not necessarily a "business", but it does have a name. I am working on a Kickstarter campaign and website for it right now. I was wondering how exactly do I go about making sure someone else doesn't decide to register a Trademark using my name and force me to stop using it? Like take SuperTux for example, they (as far as I know) are not a registered Trademark, so how do they keep their name "secure"?
Is there a way to post on my website a notice like "everything on this website is licensed under the "CC BY" including our organization's name? Would the "CC BY" protect me from someone else registering my organizations name as their Trademark?
Thanks!
P.S my organization will be creating an open source game to complement our project, so I feel this is an appropriate place to post this.