Tim Jackson said,
> Hi Neil, On 18-Jun-00, you wrote:
>> It's a real concern. Amiga are deadly serious about protecting their
>> trademarks. If they haven't issued a licence for the use of Amiga in the
>> name and URLs, accounts could be pulled.
> I really hope they are not going to be stupid about this and alienate the
> last few existing users by being arsey about stupid little things.
I doubt they'll be "arsey" but recent legal precedents mean that
companies have to actively protect their trade marks.
> It's important to protect the name, but I think we should at least see some
> actual new hardware before they even think about wasting time insisting
> every time Amiga is ever mentioned anywhere in the world it has a tradmeark
> acknowledgement with it. God.
That's not what they're saying. There's a difference between mentioning
the name, as in "I use an Amiga", and using it in a description of a
product or service, as in "Wirenet Amiga Internet". The latter needs
permission, the former doesn't.
Neil
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