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Re: Interesting Copyright Bits
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:50:49 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> ...Shades of "Murphy's Rules" from the old _Space Gamer_...
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> 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."
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 used name....not something you can normally trademark. If
someone was to make a movie that bore more than superficial resemblence to it,
then there might be a problem, but otherwise, no luck.)
James
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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