[thelist] Am I being too fussy?

Richard H. Morris richard.morris at web-designers.co.uk
Wed Jun 12 09:44:01 CDT 2002


Jonathon Isaac Swiderski [jswiders at cs.oberlin.edu] correctly noted:

> -----Original Message-----
> 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.

Doh!

Spot on.

OK, better example: having prepared a work of art or indeed a computer
graphic, copyright is the author's and that right can be enforced
through the Courts.

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