Re: Alternative punchline to Luann 12/1

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:50:57 +0000 (UTC),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.D. Baldwin) wrote:

>
>In the previous article, Tamex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> "Google" would work, too...but you might run into copyright issues.
>
>You can't copyright a word.  There might be trademark issues, but not
>really, and besides, Google *loves* having people use their name as a
>synonym for "web search."  (And, in my opinion, they've earned it.)
>You might get a nasty lawyergram if you don't capitalize the word,
>though.

I meant "trademark"...*d'oh*!

Not all companies are so generous to writers/cartoonists.  I
occasionally thumb through "Writer's Digest" at the local library, and
just about every issue will have an ad from Kimberly-Clark and/or
Xerox imploring you not to use the word "Kleenex" for a tissue or
"Xerox" for a photocopy.  I bet they send a nastygram to you if you do
so, too.
-- 
Tamex

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