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From: robinson@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
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Subject: Red's Dream (and the Leo Creation).
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Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 17:07:01 EDT
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In article <978@pixar.UUCP> good@pixar.UUCP (Come back here, you coward!  I'll bite your legs off!) writes:
>In article <3656@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
[...]
>:	This is at the request of Craig Good of Pixar, who saw what I did at
>:SIGGRAPH, and was a bit perturbed.
>

>Showing it at SIGGRAPH displayed some carelessness on the part of the Amiga
>booth, but distribution would clearly be a copyright violation.

You couldn't make that stick in a meeeeliahn yeeers.  Unless Leo had
access to the mathematical descriptions used to describe the juggling
unicycle in "Red's Dream," there is not the slightest grounds for 
copyright infringement.  I refer you to the infamous Volkswagon ad 
campaign of the early 70's, more recently the MCI rip-offs of the AT&T
"Joey called" ads, not to mention the wholesale rip-off of the Amiga 
bouncing ball by everyone from Atari to Radio Shack.  Most of all I refer
you to the publications of the Office of Copyrights, Patents and 
Trademarks, which are the final word in this matter.

The only conceivable protection you have in this case is if you were to 
apply for, and get, a design patent on juggling unicycles.  I don't know
enough about design patents to know if you could get one on such a broad
concept, but I doubt it.

[...]
>A lot of people, yours truly included, put in a long summer
>of 80 to 90-hour weeks to make "Red's Dream", so you'll forgive us if we're
>protective of our baby.  Thanks for your cooperation.

Well maybe you can sue for personal damages based on your hurt feelings.
Stranger suits have been filed and won.

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