Re: RE: Re: Re: Trademarks, imperialism and insanity

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Schaap
>Although to keep our villians straight, wouldn't that have been Warner >Brothers (I mean Time-Warner, I mean AOL-TimeWarner) doing the suing? Quite right, Nathan - it musta been AOLTimeWarnerEMI. Sorry 'bout that, chief. >Heaven forbid we confuse the more subtle humor and satire of Bugs Bunny

RE: Re: Re: Trademarks, imperialism and insanity

2000-02-11 Thread Nathan Newman
>On Behalf Of Rob Schaap > > Nope. Absolutely true. The Tasmanian Trade Commission wanted to use a > Tassie Devil as the graphic fulcrum of an expensively produced marketing > strategy in 1998. Disney threatened legal action - on a critter > that looks > nothing like their fanciful version - a

Re: Re: Trademarks, imperialism and insanity

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Schaap
>I was told but was unable to confirm that Disney's copyright of the Tasmanian >devil restricted what could be written about it in Australia. Urban legend? Nope. Absolutely true. The Tasmanian Trade Commission wanted to use a Tassie Devil as the graphic fulcrum of an expensively produced marke

RE: Re: Trademarks, imperialism and insanity

2000-02-11 Thread Nathan Newman
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Louis Proyect > > > I can tell you one thing about Disney and copyright. I entered a boolean > search on the two words in Nexis, which used the default 'within > six month' > time-frame, and it failed