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Thread #59215   Message #942368
Posted By: JohnInKansas
28-Apr-03 - 08:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: To Google is copyrighted!
Subject: RE: BS: To Google is copyrighted!
I have to agree with MMario, and I'm rather surprised that the google "legal eagle" didn't insist on the ® or TM notation rather than the © thing.

Copyright generally applies to "whole ideas," and it's rather difficult to defend copyright of a "name" by itself, whereas this does appear to be a perfectly sound example of something that could be a "trademark." The protection afforded trademarks is actually, in some respects, much stronger than for "mere" copyright.

John