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Re: [dvd-discuss] When you though things couldn't get any weirder...
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- From: Dan Steinberg <synthesis(at)videotron.ca>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:09:01 -0400
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Its not 'just' two chords.....its 'THOSE TWO".... :-P
Stephen L Johnson wrote:
>A friend of mine forwarded me this link:
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>http://www.411mania.com/music/news/article.php?news_id=3586
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>Snippet:
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>According to MTV.com, Metallica are suing independant Canadian rockers
>Unfaith over what they call "unsanctioned usage of two chords
>[Metallica] have been using since 1982 : E and F."
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>According to an MTV.com article link in the article, it's a trademark
>infringement case. Huh!?!? Since when does the PTO allow a trademark
>consisting of a sequence of two cords?
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