[thelist] Am I being too fussy?
Jonathon Isaac Swiderski
thelist at lists.evolt.org
Wed Jun 12 09:23:01 2002
From: "Richard H. Morris" <richard.morris@web-designers.co.uk>
> Hard to believe, but last I heard, you can't actually
> copyright "design".
Try using the famous "golden arches" for an 'M' on one of your web sites
and then see if you're right...
That's not copyright. The 'golden arches' are a registered(?) trademark of
McDonalds worldwide, which is pretty much what it sounds like -- a symbol
('mark') of the McDonalds business ('trade'). It's closely related to
copyright, and they're easily confused, but they're not the same.
.jonathon isaac swiderski.
soon-to-be college dropout
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