Re: trademarks

**E* L* <e*@yahoo.com>**

Newspapers and magazines are not legally required to use the trademark symbol, so I am not sure what "no right to publish" means here either, Jane. There are other perfectly acceptable ways--capitalization and so on--to indicate a trademarked name. 

Elizabeth

--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Jane Milliman <jane.milliman@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jane Milliman <jane.milliman@gmail.com>
> Subject: [GWL] trademarks
> To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 1:31 PM
> Never once have I seen a newspaper
> use the trademark symbol when  
> referring to, for instance, a Kodak product. I have to
> assume that  
> "Kodak" is a trademarked name. So you're saying that they
> have "no  
> right to publish"?
> Jane
> 
> 
> Chris said:
> 
> On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:20 PM, gardenwriters-request@lists.ibiblio.org 
> 
> wrote:
> 
> > I think that any writer or publisher who is willing to
> break the law  
> > by
> > disregarding trademark designations probably doesn't
> deserve to  
> > publish
> > in the first place.  It's not a matter of style
> or convenience; this  
> > is
> > a legal requirement to protect a company's
> brand.  If a magazine can't
> > follow our legal system then they have no right to
> publish.
> 
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