RE: Copyright [was RE: [ga] New TLD White Paper released]

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 15:37 [=GMT-0500], Michael Froomkin - U.Miami...:

> actually, there are competing yellow pages delivered to my house.  could
> be a generic term?  (One goes by the trademarked term "the _Real_ Yellow
> Pages")

If "Yellow Pages" is a generic term (I have this vague recollection of
some court case about it somewhere won by the 'owner' of the term, UK?),
that still does not mean, that if I start a competiting directory, and
call it the Pink Pages, that you can start one using the same name, or
even one called the Pinky Pages and print them on fuchsia coloured paper.

In Holland, where I live, there is a yellow pages directory called the
Gouden Gids ("golden guide"). It is on yellow paper. The telecom company
(formerly state monopoly) now also publishes yellow pages in their
directories. But they are pink. This cannot be accidental or indicate a
favour for the colour pink.  Black on yellow is much more readable than
black on pink, I think.

It is complicated. So is the alt root business.

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