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From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: FASA Trademarks
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 12:04:25 +0200
According to Bull, at 13:24 on 10 Jun 00, the word on the street was...

> 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...

Which FASA also might not want to do, because computer games can be seen
as competing with FASA's products.

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