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nobody:


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--- Quote ---I'm really beginning to wonder what the terms of the "agreement" between David Foley and the MAMEdevs was...
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My guess is that it has more to do with the agreement between the MAMEdevs and their copyright lawyers.

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yeah maybe allowing such free use of the MAME tradmark somehow undermines their copyright

Chris:

I've been generally supportive of the mamedev's flexing of their trademark muscle, but this sucks.

KevSteele:


--- Quote from: nobody on June 02, 2005, 02:19:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: quarterback on June 02, 2005, 02:07:38 pm ---
--- Quote ---I'm really beginning to wonder what the terms of the "agreement" between David Foley and the MAMEdevs was...
--- End quote ---

My guess is that it has more to do with the agreement between the MAMEdevs and their copyright lawyers.

--- End quote ---

yeah maybe allowing such free use of the MAME tradmark somehow undermines their copyright

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If you mean "trademark" instead of copyright, perhaps - trademarks must be protected, while copyright does not require enforcement.

Still, if IBM had been able to squash any company that said they were "IBM Compatible", where would we be today.

And how can MAMEdevs say things like:

you can only use "MAME-compatible" once in your ad

...does trademark enforcement have that much legal power?

divemaster127:

Let say a person wants to sell their Dell computer on ebay so now you cant use the word dell, I think this is crazy & someone has to much free time on there hands, I have looked at the ebay auctions nobody is selling roms so what harm is being is being done,  I fill like Mr. Foley still haunts us.
thanks


menace:

I see they are also cracking down on using artwork or mentioning roms--so now they have gone from free reign to way over reaching their mandate.  If I want to stick a picture of pacman on my cab then let namco come after me--the mamedevs have no legal footing on that point--its just being silly.  And I agree that mentioning it once is a tad silly (even if once is enough) I've never seen anything that limits the number of times of useage within a document--if you have permission, you have permission, there isn't any of this counting crap.

And like others i applaud them protecting the mame (tm) name but to adopt a big brother attitude is pretty lame.

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