[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

Kevin Hulse jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Jun 21 02:21:09 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:26:33AM -0700, Chris Petersen wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> > You can't copyright a title of a creative work. You can apply
> > for a trademark, but that doesn't restrict people from talking
> > about it. (I bought a box of Kleenex tissues yesterday. Want to
> > learn how to configure a cisco 2600?) And patents don't apply.
> 
> Call it trademark, then.  Either way, *most* tv show names belong to
> someone, and you can't legally publish information about them without
> proper attribution.

	That would basically make most of the library reference
section illegal. I really doubt that OCLC gives authors of the
25+ million books they had indexed 10 years ago a piece of thier
action.

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