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Today I received an e-mail from 'MAERSKINFO' in Copenhagen.
<quote>
Referring to your web page on http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/povsink.htm
we neither warrant nor represent that you use our name on your
homepage. Please remove any use of the MAERSK name on your web site
and confirm that you agree.
</quote>
Can they really enforce this? I mean, I have built a (virtual) boat model
right out of the LEGO idea book, and then made a rendering of it, sinking. So
what's more natural than calling it 'The Sinking of Regina Maersk'?
Do they have a trade-mark on the boat name? (I checked, there exists a ship
today called R.M., it's the worlds largest supertanker - they say)
Ideas anyone?
--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm
Gallery: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/gallery.htm
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| Anders, (...) Well, if they hold the copyright (I am no lawyer, so please do not confuse this with official legal council!), I am sure it is international, they can protect it. Even though I really liked the pov-ray version, I think they think of it (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well my guess is they don't want to be represented in a negative fashion where it might be viewed that you have something against the company. My guess is that if you had just put the boad floating in the water without a list or the explosion (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I'm not a lawyer, but what you have there is a work of art, and I think it is therefore protected from that sort of corporate nonsense. By the way, it's very nice! --Colin __ __ __ __ __ __ | |_| |_| |_| | | |_| | | | Brick Engineer | | | (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| Consult a local Intellectual Property Lawyer. Laws vary from place to place and you need professional advice and counsel. However, my opinions: I'm assuming they hold a valid trademark for that name in your country. Even so, unless it's sufficiently (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| A couple of people have already given some good legal advice (like Kevin Loch). But when it comes down to it, they're not going to risk huge court expense and bad pr by actually doing anything about it. I would give them a nice friendly "screw you" (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| The area of trademark law is a bit fluffy (short on hard and fast rules). For an interesting trademark law case that discusses the law of trademarks as it relates to internet domain names, check out the decision in Hasbro, Inc. v. Clue Computing at: (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| [ FUT lugnet.publisch ] Anders: [...] Det er en tom trussel. Din side er et kunstværk og det eneste de muligvis har ret til at kræve er at du diskret skriver at "Maersk" er et registreret varemærke der tilhører A.P. Møller-koncernen (hvis det ellers (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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