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From: ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...)
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Subject: Re: NetBunny revisited
Message-ID: <1991Jan08.060744.23284@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 91 06:07:44 GMT
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In <1991Jan8.031349.29135@csrd.uiuc.edu> forbes@sp11.csrd.uiuc.edu (Michael Scott Forbes) writes:

>Usenet to Eveready:  What are you, STUPID?!  Someone's just offered your
>company *free* advertising for one of its products, and you don't want it?!

That might very well be the point.  Eveready may not own the rights to the
Bunny commercials -- their creator, Chiat/Day/Mojo, might.  If so, it may
create a legal muck that Eveready doesn't want to wade through for one 
ambitious (and humorous) programmer.

More likely, Eveready wouldn't cross the street for Dean Yu, or you, or me.
But that's one possible logical explanation.  They also may be worried about
defamation;  it's a heck of a lot easier to say "no" than to have your 
lawyers draft a neat 25-page document making Mr. Yu promise never to use the
bunny in a way that would do a disservice to Eveready, etc., etc., ad
nauseam.  Again, a lot more difficult than crossing the street, and they
probably wouldn't do that.

(I'm not discouraging others from using their power of the pen, but mine will
continue to do the crossword;  I think this may be a lost cause.)
--
        ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska
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