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Re: Can they do like this?
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lugnet.publish, lugnet.general
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Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:30:30 GMT
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crg0194@.ultra#nospam#.ccp.com
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Anders Isaksson wrote:
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> Today I received an e-mail from 'MAERSKINFO' in Copenhagen.
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> <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>
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> 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'?
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> 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)
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> Ideas anyone?
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
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