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["Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>]

El dia Dilluns 20 Maig 2002 10:24, no tenies res mes que fer i vas i m'envies 
aquest e-mail:
> Hello,
>   Another listserv I'm on for VW busses, (I've got a '71) has been
> contacted by Volkswagen of  America (VWOA) recently and asked to remove the
> VW logo on their website or club names.  One person was making and selling
> clocks he made out of old VW Bus hubcaps and even though VWOA no longer
> sells bus parts, they told him he wasn't allowed to because the hubcaps
> have the VW logo on them.  This is the liscence agreement they're sending
> out
> (http://vwlicense.ipprotector.com/gtc.html).  Has anyone seen this happen
> with any other companies?  Is this similar to how pop stars will try and
> stop their fan sites?  Can they really do this?

I remember reading a year ago about Walt Disney, Nickodeon and other media 
giants, sending "cease and desist" letters to young kids that had 
"copyrighted material" pon their website. Yes, you are a kid, put up a 
website about Mickey Mouse, with pictures and scanned parafernalia or mp3 
files of Mickey's laughter, and Disney lawyers were sent after you.

Same thing happened with X-Files fansites.

With the current law, yes, it is legal in the use to follow this non-sense 
line of action.

> Thanks,

Thanks to DMCA, extended IP laws and other existing "marvels".

> Dallas



Salut,
Josep
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Josep L. Guallar-Esteve, QA-Test Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
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