On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:54:11PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > > I Guess not... > > Your search - SuSlackianhatdrake - did not match any documents. > > No pages were found containing "suslackianhatdrake". > > If google says that... how can it possibly be copywrited? > > Since you ask, it's copyrighted because I wrote it in the US. > Everything you write is automatically copyrighted. I read that in > Lessig's book just last week. I don't have the book with me > now, so I can't quote it (which is legal under fair use).
Pet peeve time... A name cannot be Copyrighted (and it's a Copy right, not a Copy write or a Copy rite!), since it is just a name. For a name to be protected, it must be Trade or Service marked. A Trademark need not be registered, but if you don't register it, you'll find it hard to defend (Copyrights which are not registered are much easier to defend because of the Berne Convention.) Writing a word does not make it a Trademark, even if it's a new word. You must actually tell people your new word is your Trademark, and you must defend it (unlike a Copyright or a patent..) Service marks are a new thing and are used by people like McDonalds who have SM'd the word "smile", which now nobody else can use in the fast food industry, I guess. Rather ridiculous actually, but as it happens they didn't register the SM or it would get the magic (R)... This concludes today's lesson in Intellectual Property bullsh--er, I mean, legislation. =) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Have chainsaw will travel * joeyh cvs commits his home directory. Aaaaaa <drow> eeeeeeek <drow> joeyh: That is simply evil. Period.
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