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Re: Lugnet for beginners
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:43:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Eric Joslin writes:
> Huh? Maybe there's some facet of trademark law I'm unfamiliar with, but how is
> *discussing* a product, even in negative terms, a trademark dilution?
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> Are you seriously suggesting that saying something negative (even as in a
> parody) is somehow illegal? How is a review, even if contained to a two-word
> succint phrase, a trademark dilution?
Maybe it is this sort of thing that does dilute trademarks, like parents telling
their kids to run off and play with legos. Lego can try to cure the problem by
asking us to stop using their name that way (they really tried back around
1980.) But that doesn't prove the parents have become liable at law.
On the other hand, UCITA could make it a crime to disparage Netscape, along with
reverse engineering and magazine reviews. That's scary.
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| Moved to off-topic.debate (...) Huh? Maybe there's some facet of trademark law I'm unfamiliar with, but how is *discussing* a product, even in negative terms, a trademark dilution? Are you seriously suggesting that saying something negative (even as (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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