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Discussion: Ultracade and the Mame Trademark
clanggedin:
I think they should change the name anyway to GAME. General Arcade Machine Emulator.
mahuti:
Nobody would be able to protect a trademark on that. lol.
Crazy Cooter:
To be "similar" to mp3 distribution, ROM's & emus are missing one thing:
DRM - Digital Rights Management.
Say Foley gets permission to spread roms through his nutty service, he's going to need an emulator that can "authorize" the use of that rom. The problem would be that if he comes out with "Foley's Emulator", it doesn't have a reputation. Now if he suddenly has an emulator called "MAME", that has a reputation.
Does anyone else see "You must use MAME version 1.0 or higher to play these ROMs" in the future?
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on February 28, 2005, 01:11:56 pm ---To be "similar" to mp3 distribution, ROM's & emus are missing one thing:
DRM - Digital Rights Management.
Say Foley gets permission to spread roms through his nutty service, he's going to need an emulator that can "authorize" the use of that rom.
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wj2k3:
It would seem impossible for Mr. Fooley to obtain a trademark on an item he has already publicly declared that he is not the rightful owner.
--- Quote ---We will be happy to cancel our application and work with the M.A.M.E. team to assign it to its rightful owners;
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But I quess it would seem just as impossible for someone to sue a RV manufacturer (and win) because his RV crashed on the way home from buying it after he set the cruise control and went back to make a sandwich.