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- From: jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr)
- Subject: Re: Forth books (was "ANS Forth")
- Message-ID: <jax.724810051@well.sf.ca.us>
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- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- References: <9212191829.AA15097@im4>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:07:31 GMT
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- In <9212191829.AA15097@im4> dmiller@im.lcs.mit.edu (Dick and Jill Miller) writes:
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- >Jaxfanz and others have noted it. I would urge you to notify your lawyers
- >that their newly-proposed title for your book is uncomfortably close to the
- >preexisting title, "FORTH: A TEXT AND REFERENCE". That is, unless you and
- >its authors/publisher have some agreement on why your book is a follow-on
- >to theirs, or unless you hope to cash in by construing an imagined linkage
- >of that sort.
-
- Back in the 1940's, Warner Bros., makers of "Casablanca", threatened
- to sue the Marx Bros. for making a film called "A Night in Casablanca".
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- Groucho Marx fired back a letter threatening to sue Warner Bros.
- for calling themselves "brothers", since the Marx Bros. were brothers first.
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- Thank you for sharing, Dick. Best luck in 1993 selling Forth-79.
-
- Regards,
-
- =jax=
-
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