Re: A2Central.com

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Jeff Blakeney wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:28:55 -0500, Roy and/or Janet Miller
> <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
>
> >Jeff, I'm not so sure you're right on that. McDonald's, I believe, owns the use of
> >"Mac*" and I think Apple had to pay them a few to call Lisa's little brother
> >Macintosh. Further, they did have to make a deal with Coke to use the work
> >"Classic" with the MacClassic.
>
> Everything I have read about copyrights says that you can't copyright
> a word or short phrase.  You can trademark your product or company
> logo

Ah, cumulative sleep deprivation strikes again. I was confusing copyrights with
trademarks. Sorry about that.

> and other people can't use that logo without your permission but
> the words in the logo can be used without permission in certain
> situations.  In this situation, the newsletter hasn't existed for a
> number of years and I don't know the length of time trademarks stay in
> effect so this could all be pointless musings anyway.
>
> Then there is the fact that A2-Central the newsletter is written as
> A2-Central and A2Central.com the web site doesn't have the dash and
> also has a .com after it.
>
> Regardless of whether I'm right or not, if Eric were to ask for
> permission, I'm 99.99% sure he'd get it in a heartbeat.

I have no doubt of it either.

Roy