RE: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus

["Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org>]

A trademark on goods yes but not a trademark as a character for a cartoon, 
toys, dolls, or as a stuffed animal (although a stuffed mickey mouse with 
label with a mickey trademark would be fraud.)




Richard Hartman <hartman@onetouch.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ernest Miller [mailto:ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 6:39 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus
> 
> 
> If Eldred is wildly successful we can hope for two outcomes:
> 
> 1) The court kill retroactive extensions pemanently - Welcome to the 
> public domain, Mickey.

Of all the things potentially freed by killing the retroactive
extensions, Mickey seems to me to be the safest.  I do believe
that the Disney Corporation has a firm argument to keep him under
protection as a TradeMark.


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-Richard M. Hartman
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