On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Martin L. Shoemaker wrote:
> Sorry, but no. The issue here is not copyright but trademark. And according
> to claims on their Web site (as so kindly noted by Russ), "Dungeon" is
> indeed a trademark of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Trademark does not prevent
> use of a term, just use in a particular domain. In this case, it's the
> domain of games. If I still had a copy of Dungeon (the old, old game, not
> the magazine), I would not be surprised to find that it was trademarked back
> then.
Ah, no it's not the domain of games, it's the domain of magazines. Not
the same thing.
IIRC the trademark for the game was that sort of weird font/artwork
version of the word "Dungeon", not just the word "Dungeon".
> No. You can trademark names, not copyright them. And given that terms like
> "Apple" and "Colt" are trademarks within specific domains, maybe it's
> possible to trademark "Steve" as the name of -- say -- an automobile. That
> wouldn't mean that Messrs. Jobs and Wosniack have to go and change their
> names. It simply means that nobody else can make Steve-mobiles.
LOL, I give you R.E.O. Speedwagon as proof you can mix cars and rock and
roll bands trademarks...
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