Re: Second list of suggestions for Debian 3.0r3
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 04:56:30PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> [2004-03-29 17:51]:
> > Below are some additional suggestions (this time only removal
> > suggestions):
> >
> > Must be removed
> > ---------------
> >
> > - freeamp #152857
> > trademark problems
>
> Did you see Joey's comments (or the message he forwarded from -legal)
> in that bug report?
Are you talking about the message that contains:
<-- snip -->
Has PlayMedia Systems (PMS) sent us a cease and desist?
If not, I suggest that we ignore it until that happens. [However, if
it does, we will have to move quickly to remove|rename it.]
<-- snip -->
This is IMHO very weak.
I don't know about the situation in other countries, but at least with
the German equivalent of a "cease and desist" (Abmahnung), a company
owning a trademark would be allowed without any warning before to
instruct a lawyer to send "cease and desist" letters to every single
mirror and perhaps CD distributor in Germany. If you sign to desist you
have to pay the costs of the lawyer which is usually in the range of at
about 1000 Euro per letter.
> Martin Michlmayr
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Adrian
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