Re: G.U.E. Technical Institute


30 Mar 1995 20:37:32 GMT

In article <D68s3B.J9n@eskimo.com>, Brian Lane <blane@eskimo.com> wrote:
>
>: Short of calling Activision, isn't there a copyright office of some kind
>: that you can call and ask the status of copyrighted phrases? I seem to
>: remember this, but I may have been dreaming.
>
> I know Activision holds copyrights on the games and their titles, but I
>don't know about the phrases used in the games. I did a whois search on gue
>and came up with a gue.com (some consulting service, may be unrelated) and a
>frobozz.org(who isn't net connected, but I tried to send email to).
>
> Brian

It is likely that the name G.U.E. is trademarked (not copyrighted--you
copyright content, but trademark names, slogans, etc). I would be wary
of using for commercial purposes a name owned by a big uncaring company
like Activision.

Allen