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Re: I'll let the Freemasons know Debian is distributing their trademark



On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:36:19AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> Removal of the pacman image is the
> only one that I can see any case for at all

Even if this were once true (which I doubt), there's no chance that
anybody still has a valid trademark on pacman; it's diluted to the
point of being common usage.

Random example:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-03-04&res=l

This sort of stuff is common. Now, if you were making a *game* and
used it as a character, *then* you might have a problem.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of trademarks:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2001-07-11&res=l

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