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    From Thomas McLaren@thomasnews@ameritech.net to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 05:31:48
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    In case you haven't read it, it's here http://www.tulip.com/aboutus/corp_article.asp?nid=109.

    After reading it and taking note of the following paragraph,

    "Ironstone and Tulip invite the Commodore community to join the official Commodore
    C64 web-portal. Currently there are about 300 commercial websites that
    use the name
    Commodore or Commodore 64 without having a license from Tulip. Tulip
    will not allow
    unauthorised use of the Commodore brand."

    I'd like to take back what I written in an earlier post about Commodore not having the power or interest to sue the C-One, Ms. Ellsworth, and other such interested Commodore hackers and extenders into oblivion. Apparently, their new masters do! :(

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  • From russotto@russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 09:55:38
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    In article <8lMQa.10219$Vx2.4440923@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com>,
    Thomas McLaren <thomasnews@ameritech.net> wrote:
    In case you haven't read it, it's here >http://www.tulip.com/aboutus/corp_article.asp?nid=109.

    After reading it and taking note of the following paragraph,

    "Ironstone and Tulip invite the Commodore community to join the official
    Commodore
    C64 web-portal. Currently there are about 300 commercial websites that
    use the name
    Commodore or Commodore 64 without having a license from Tulip. Tulip
    will not allow
    unauthorised use of the Commodore brand."

    I'd like to take back what I written in an earlier post about Commodore not >having the power or interest to sue the C-One, Ms. Ellsworth, and other such >interested Commodore hackers and extenders into oblivion. Apparently, their >new masters do! :(

    The trademark doesn't have the kind of power they're trying to claim
    it does. There's broad fair use for trademarks, in particular
    nominative fair use, which is using the trademark to refer to the
    trademarked item.
    --
    Matthew T. Russotto mrussotto@speakeasy.net "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
    of justice is no virtue." But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of
    a modicum of security is a very expensive vice.
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