| From: | Katt Freyson <katt@******.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Matrix copyright |
| Date: | Sun, 10 May 1998 17:31:38 -0400 |
|> Sent: May 10, 1998 12:15 PM
|> Subject: Matrix copyright
|> This is my first mail for the list, hopefully I make a good
|> entry move *grin*
Well, your entry was okay, though you were not in perfect form, so I'll
give you a 7 out of 10. Hi.
|> How much does FASA have the copyright for the Matrix..? do they have it
|> only for the name, or do they also have the copyright for the Matrix
|> interface itself (such as.. icons, hosts, security programs, and its very
|> own 3-d world)?
I will try and decipher your intent here, because it is not clear from
your words. First of all, FASA does not have the word Matrix copyrighted,
you cannot copyright a word. Nor can you copyright an interface. What you
can do is trademark a word, if it is the name of a product, such as
Shadowrun. Shadowrun is a trademark of FASA, but the word is not protected
by copyright.
I do not believe they have attempted to patent their interface, seeing as
it is not real, so the only thing they could do with that is copyright the
description of it. The same rules apply to all the terms used here, icons,
hosts, security programs, none of which are trademarked, but the
descriptions of these in Shadowrun are protected by copyright.
You can make use of any of these concepts in your own prose, but if you
use such terms that have been trademarked then you must make a notice of
such when you write the term. EG: Shadowrun(tm) is a great game by FASA.
Katt Freyson
ICQ UIN 3337155
Montreal, Canada
http://www.dsuper.net/~katt
