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Re: O'Reilly book news
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lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Sat, 8 Apr 2000 00:34:53 GMT
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
I'm pretty sure that if it came to that, TLC wouldn't have much to stand on.

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
Hat; a book called "How to use Red Hat Linux" is much better. And I'm pretty
sure that no one is confused into thinking that such books are official --
especially if they happen to be called something like "The Unofficial Guide
to Red Hat Linux".)

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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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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