From:	Bull bull@***********.com
Subject:	FASA Trademarks
Date:	Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:24:21 -0400

At 04:00 PM 6/10/00 +0200, Dennis Steinmeijer wrote:

I also heard in the recordings of the Gencon Fasa
>press-conference done by one of the members here (don't remember who, I
>applogize), that FASA has the word "Matrix" trademarked. Did they ever
>receive a healthy influx of cred from the Wachowski brothers for the movie
>"Matrix" or did they let it slide?
>
Well... ACTUALLY...

There are a handful of differing copyrights out there. I'm not as famiiar
as I should be on the subject, but FASA has the Game Rights to the term
"Matrix", That's porbably one of the biggest reasons you never saw (Nor
may never see) a video game based on the movie (which is almost
unprecedented in this day and age, and even more so given the theme of the
movie :)). Between licensing the movie images/ideas/whatever from the
movie guys and the movie studio, they'd ALSO have to license the name from
FASA...

Bull

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