On Friday 24 November 2006 20:58, Lourens Veen wrote: > On Friday 24 November 2006 20:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We probably need to create a separate license for any trademarks > > we register. "You may use this trademark without fee if you..." > > Yes, many companies seem to have one. We'll also need to be careful > about other people's trademarks that we mention in our documents. > Xilinx®, Lattice® and Spartan(TM) are all trademarks for example. > > I seem to recall a nice explanation of how to acknowledge trademarks on > Groklaw some time ago, but I can't find it. Anyway, here's one from a > company that seems to give all the relevant advice: > http://smartboard.co.uk/company/trademarksusage.asp > > The trouble with trademarks is that you _have_ to defend them or risk > losing them, so even a friendly company will be very careful to send > you a letter to explain what you're doing wrong unless you get it > right. > > Also, IIRC a copyright notice isn't officially valid unless you use the > actual © symbol (the (c) is not good enough), I'm not sure how that is > for trademarks but if we can use the real symbols (©, ® and > ™ in HTML) then we should. >
In which country? I know it used to be banded around about 20 years ago that you needed to put an actual copyright symbol on etc. But that was decided IIRC to be complete bollocks, and that it wasn't necessary. IIUC (And remembering IANAL) copyright nowadays is automatic. e.g. you produce a work, it's copyrighted by you. You have to explicitly assign rights... You may also waive your rights. But I don't belive you have to use an explicit wording or symbol to do so. Hmm... I know a lawyer... I'll see if he knows anything about copyright (Although he's in NZ, and IIRC specialises in contract law). Hamish.
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