[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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Richard. H. Morris, Web Designers Limited
~~ http://www.web-designers.co.uk ~~
"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me
than a full frontal lobotomy"
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