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From: uname@pyuxqq.UUCP (Ulysses Naime)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.legal
Subject: Re: Copyrighted Material / (TM)
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Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 14:35:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 19 14:35:35 1984
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>>  Practically, there is little that a company can do if someone  continues
>>  to misuse a trademark, especially on something like netnews.  I would
>>  be interested to hear what a company can do.
>>  			John Haller

What a company should do is seek a change in the law so that using
a trademark WITHOUT the TM does NOT eventually cause the company to
lose the trademark.

On copywrites, I feel that the period of protection from unrestricted
copying is much TOO long.  Example:  If I invent a billion dollar
product like a transistor, I can only get patent protection for 17
years, however, if I write a poem about transistors, I can get
protection for close to 100 years, depending on the life span of the author.