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Interesting Copyright Bits
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:38:24 GMT
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...Shades of "Murphy's Rules" from the old _Space Gamer_...
Looking at the new catalogue (who's not?), it appears that
Lucasfilm, Ltd., has trademarked the word "Imperial." This
brings to mind the boardgame variant of "Indiana Jones" from
days gone by, where they attempted to trademark the term
"Nazi."
Ack.
best
Lindsay
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| "Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:G2y3o0.8xC@lugnet.com... (...) I surprised they havent registered 'Star' and 'Wars' too. regards lawrence (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) that'll be news to some people here in Canada. Imperial Oil I'm sure will be interested to know that Lucas is trying to squeeze them out of a name! (although, from my readings, I don't think they stand a chance of holding it. It is a widely (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Here's another real-life adventure in the realm of copyright names. When the Olympic games were courted for an appearance here in Seattle, they explained that no business in the area could use the term "Olympic" in it's name whlie they were (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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