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• Subject: Re: Haiku in the news (duck!)
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:05:01 +0100 (BST)
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• In-reply-to: <YU6ZLGC7TZUNIQNTRP5YUQZXI86SN.3d7e05cc@MChamp>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>"Habeas' patent-pending service works by trademarking and
>copyrighting a unique set of lines, known as the warrant mark, which
>is embedded in the headers of outgoing email. Included is a haiku, a
>17-syllable Japanese poem.

>Copyright offers legal protection to the poetry. Trademark offers
>legal protection to other parts of the email header."

I remember a similar trademark-based scheme being proposed several
years ago, and as I remember it the conclusion was that trademark law
could not be used to prevent interoperability.  For example, Apple
couldn't prevent you ataching non-apple drives to Macs by making the
connector pins be a trademarked apple shape.

I don't remember whether copyright was considered.

-- Richard

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