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D I S K O V E R Y
I just heard that a company called
"Tulip" owns the copyright to the
Commodore name and the famous chicken-
lips icon. I also heard -- and perhaps
it is just a rumor and/or urban myth
-- that said company has plans to
charge anyone who uses the icon.
Oh -- good! Like a dog with a
bone, these mighty companies don't
[want] to actually [use] the logo;
they just don't want anyone else using
the logo. That's not quite right. They
WANT anyone else to use the label and
pay them for the priviledge! And we
are brainwashed to believe that this
is all right, meet and proper.
What is quite far from right,
meet, and proper is the language of
our copyright law, which has no
provisions for abandoned or orphaned
intellectual properties. It is not
written to protect the creative
person, but rather to create a
protected corporate nobility that owns
everything.
Consider how the corporate music
industry (which has not published a
decent song since Billy Joel's "For
the Longest Time") pounced on Napster
with both feet. They were losing money
they hadn't earned. Boo-hoo. I will
feel sorry for them when [I] have a
Lexus! Now, after a decade of no
corporate support for the C= machines
and software, someone thinks they can
pop up and say, "Gimmee!"
Well -- I won't. My pockets are so
shallow, they are dry. The lawyer
won't squeeze enough money out of me
to pay for the stamp on the first
letter! They can bankrupt me, but they
cannot have one stolen penny from me.
EVEN IF I am GUILTY of Breaking the
Law. For the Law is corrupt, null, and
void.
Fortunately, I am out of disk
space. Enjoy the issue!
DMM