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From: gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: NetBunny revisited
Message-ID: <14059@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 91 18:07:04 GMT
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In article <1991Jan9.175754.4231@engin.umich.edu> mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu writes:
!In article <HLHiV3w163w@tosh.UUCP> tosh!starta@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (John Starta) writes:
!!fore@athena.cs.uga.edu (Howard Fore) writes:
!!!How difficult would it be to erase the "Energizer" off of the side of the dru
!!!If it's in a PICT file/resource, it doesn't >>SEEM<< to be that difficult. Th
!!!the rest of the joke would be preserved, there would be no messy legal 
!!!shenanigans and this whole mess could be forgotten.
!!That would only ease half the problem. The Bunny itself is trademarked as 
!!well, so other than replace it with a generic bunny, Eveready still has your 
!!number, sort of speak.
!  Actually, I'm wondering if it's the actual bunny that's trademarked, or
!do they have rights to the idea of a bunny walking across something totally
!unrelated?

	Definitely not.  Make it a bunny with a snare drum, make it a dogcow,
make it a different looking bunny (ala Roger Rabbit or Bugs Bunny), make
it even a Tenniel rabbit (ala ALICE IN WONDERLAND) and you simply won't
have any problem.

	Check with a lawyer to get an idea on the exact boundary on what's
legal and what isn't, but if you change it fairly drastically, it ain't
gonna be actionable for Everready.....