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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Re: Empire
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 16:01:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 16:01:32 1987
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	If it is a code port, then copyright laws come into play.  If not,
you can use the name "Empire".  Reason:  (1) Not being a code port means that
the author can make it sufficiently different that it be more closely related 
to some (read any) other game out there, or unrelated enough to the 'original'
empire that copyright laws do not come into play.  Additionaly, it might be
very closely related to an offshoot of the original Empire, in which case it
will still be sufficiently different from the original.  (2) The name "Empire"
has been used for inumerable computer games dating far earlier, and any 
court case resulting from using the name yet again would be thrown out on 
those grounds.

	Did you even get the trademark registered? No? Sorry.

					-Matt