Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!caen!mondo.engin.umich.edu!mystone From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: NetBunny revisited Message-ID: <1991Jan9.175754.4231@engin.umich.edu> Date: 9 Jan 91 17:57:54 GMT References: <1991Jan8.174102.18266@athena.cs.uga.edu> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Reply-To: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu Distribution: na Organization: Patches 'R' Us, A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Cyberite Systems Lines: 34 In article 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. >> >> So how 'bout it? > >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? 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 Yu | E-mail: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu Patches 'R' Us | Real-mail: Dean Yu A Division of Cyberite Systems | 909 Church St Apt C | Ann Arbor, MI 48104 I'm not the voice of Reason, much | Phone: 313 662-4073 less the voice of Cyberite. | 313 662-4163 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------