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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:14:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
To:        David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc:        jbryant@tfs.net, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: trek73
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910251506410.59784-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <000101bf1f28$2a498f40$021d85d1@youwant.to>

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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, David Schwartz wrote:

> > > "unauthorized" things for keeping Trek alive in the first place...  If
> > > it came out that Paramount ever tried litigation over such things,
> > > they would lose a LOT of fans, and the money in their pockets!  What
> > > would come next?  Sueing people at conventions for getting the
> > > uniforms wrong?
> >
> > Or sueing fan websites, perhaps?
> 
> 	Isn't this more or less precisely what happened once X-Files
> became popular enough to not need them anymore?

Yup - but my point was that at around the time of the debut of
www.startrek.com<tm>, the Paramount lawyers went on a spree, marking their
territory by threatening high-profile fan sites. Whether or not it's
something which would stand up in court, it's hassle the project could do
without, and leaving aside the issue of whether the existing trek(6)
should remain I wouldn't want to tempt fate by adding a second.

Amusingly, Paramount are now claiming trademark on the letter 'Q'.

Kris



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