[thelist] Am I being too fussy?

[Jonathon Isaac Swiderski]

   From: "Richard H. Morris" <richard.morris at 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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