Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!uw-beaver!Teknowledge.COM!unix!mxmora From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: NetBunny revisited Message-ID: <19793@unix.SRI.COM> Date: 10 Jan 91 00:29:25 GMT References: <1991Jan8.174102.18266@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991Jan9.175754.4231@engin.umich.edu> Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora) Distribution: na Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 41 In article <1991Jan9.175754.4231@engin.umich.edu> mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu writes: > > 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? > A friend of mine gave me a toy bunny that whacks a drum and walks around >like it's drunk yesterday. It doesn't look anything like EB, so I've been >toying with the idea of filming this bugger wandering around and stealing a >few frames from this and making the Boom Boom Bunny walk across the screen. >Just a thought... > > -- Dean Dean, Last night I got a catalog in the mail called "things you never thought exsisted" and on the back page was a pink bunny with sunglasses and it bangs a drum. Its made of plastic and its not a stuffed animal. It looks like the EB but the drum looks a little different and it doesn't say energizer anywhere on the guy. In the text of the ad it mentions the "TV bunny" but it doesn't say energizer nor does it mention any copyright information. So I guess that they (the makers of this bunny some import outfit) are getting away with making a "look and feel" copy of the EB. Also why didn't you just use a standard "PICT" resource? That would make it easy to change. I see a lot of useful things that can be done with your hack. Keep up the good work and is there any chance of you donating some of your tricks to the next version of the UMPG? I would really like to know how you did this. :-) -- ___________________________________________________________ Matthew Mora | my Mac Matt_Mora@QM.SRI.COM SRI International | my SUN mxmora@unix.sri.com ___________________________________________________________