Star Trek

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Spot,
> 
> Any input on this?

Ugh. If we wanted to do this, we'd need to sanitize it six ways from
Sunday, and I'd have to spend a lot of time with the US Trademark Search
engine seeing what Paramount/CBS actually owns.

I know that they hold:

Klingon
Romulan
Star Trek

It would be a safe bet to assume that all "star trek" alien races of any
significance are trademarked.

To be on the safe side, we would want to avoid using any remotely
trademarkable item that has appeared in an ST tv show or movie.

Yeah, that sucks, but Paramount/CBS fiercely protects their property,
and this is a heavily merchandized field (just look at how many licensed
ST computer games exist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_games#Video_games ).

Alternately, we could ask Paramount/CBS. *snicker* I think you know what
that will bring. ;)

So, if and only if someone goes through and removes everything
trademarked from it... and does it correctly...

For example:

Captain John U. Quirk [OK]
Captain James S. Kirk [NOT OK]
Captain Jane T. Kirk [NOT OK]
Lt. Spok [NOT OK]
Lt. Squawk [OK]

... if that was done, I would be willing to audit it, and if it gets by
me, we could include it.

:)

~spot