Jon Drukman <jdrukman@us.oracle.com> writes:
quoted 6 lines I was wondering just how legal it is to use a registered trademark for> >I was wondering just how legal it is to use a registered trademark for
> >a band name...
>
> You can't copyright a title. I can call my record Like A Virgin or
> Sparcstation-2 and neither Madonna nor Sun can sue me. Now, if I made
> a competing product with the same name, they might have a case.
Actually, you might run into alot of problems calling your record
Sparcstation-2 if it happens to be a registered trademark. What happened to
System 7 in the US because of Apple's TM on "System 7" is a prime example.
- Dan
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