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| (...) I assume Jonathan (and ORA) went through the same discussions my publisher did with TLG regarding using "Mindstorms" in a book title. Lego had no problem at all with people writing books...in fact I've gotten a lot of encouraging feedback from (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego) !
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| "Dave Baum" <dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com> wrote in message news:dbaum-FAB69A.18...net.com... (...) Get both books, cheaper, from Varisty Books: (URL) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) However, it seems extremely unreasonable in the case of books about a product. In fact, although I'm not a lawyer, this use of trademarks seems 100% within the precedent set for fair use: it's impossible to describe _without_ using the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Not to mention, of course, the whole thing where these books are nothing but beneficial to Lego, and much more beneficial if they actually use their name in the title. (To make another analogy: a book called "How to use Linux" is nice for Red (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) There's tons of precedent on using trademarked names in titles of books. I don't believe my publisher was ever seriously concerned about losing a court case. But they didn't want to bother going to court, and there's a lot of value in a good (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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