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From: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,rec.games.empire
Subject: Re: Empire
Message-ID: <1405@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 13:04:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 13:04:28 1987
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In article <14051@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Schizophrenic Solipsist) writes:
)In article <1401@dataio.Data-IO.COM) bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
)) Be careful to rewrite it from scratch, also don't use the name Empire.
)You cannot forbid anyone to use the name "Empire" for any program.

You cannot use the name Empire and attach it to a program that is similar
to my Empire game. That would be trademark infringement. The same rule
would apply if you wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS. I think
you would hear from Microsoft real fast.

I've often wondered why people think that since I'm a very small company
that I'm not entitled to the same protection under the law that billion
dollar corporations are.