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pete white wrote:
> > Though you would have to say it is no more an issue than calling a minifig
> > Jack Stone.
> > Are all the Jacks of the world going to be taking issue with Lego for using
> > their name?
>
> Not really an apt comparison.
>
> pete.w (long live the Viking lifestyle)
So it's ok for a Danish company to use an English name but not a Maori
one?
Note that it was pointed out that TLC did not copyright or trademark the
names (and even if they were trademarked, a trademark is in relation to
a specific product group, I seriously doubt the Maori are planning on
marketting anything in the same product group as Bionicle). In any case,
it really is no different than Jack Stone.
Tom McSpamcakeDonald can't open a burger joint and name it after
himself. Does that make a McDonalds a horrible abuser of trademark? No.
In fact, McDonalds is precisely why trademarks are so important.
FUT: lugnet.off-topic.debate
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| (...) As you would expect. Let's just say indigenous people may view this sort of thing as a bit more important than non-indigenous people would. Like Todd, I thought Lego had thought these names up, even though they sounded Polynesian. Is the Lego (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nz)
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