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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: Legal issues, names, privacy, and pseudonymsRE: Legal issues, names, privacy, and pseudonyms
From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:17:33 +0100 > WHAT legal risk? > > Is it the fact that the name is similar to the Mattel(tm) name? > >wouldn't Tetris have the same problem? IIRC, there have been legal battles >involving nintendo and >other game companies that made tetris-clones. > >-scott That's what I was wondering, nintendo are as relentless as Microsoft ove such things. The last case I knew of Nintendo winning, was $6M USD which put the company they were suing out of business for good. There are possibly similar troubles with other games in Rockbox - I suppose it just depends on how many risks Bjo"rn is prepared to take. The risk of Nintendo is pretty severe. BC _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-06-10 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |