There are plenty of sand banks around the world in international waters where a million tons or so of rock would make a nice island. There is even some not far from Sealand. Would this not be a better way of gaining some soverignity than trying too get a nation to suceed a portion of land to you? At the very least it is certain to be successful. JAB.
In the response that IDG gave they said that they owned the trademark on "For Dummies" in respect to books and printed material.
That means that anyone can use the "For Dummies" phrase to refer to other products classes. So for example if I where to make a really easy to use video recorder I could market it as "A Video Recorder for Dummies" and even call it "VCR for Dummies"
Perhaps the most famous computing example is the word VAX, which is a trademark of both Digital (Compaq now) and whoever it is who makes the VAX vacuum cleaners. Same word trademarked twice because of the different product areas.
Now last time I looked a web page was neither a book or printed material, in which case IDG have not a leg to stand on.
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There are plenty of sand banks around the world in international waters where a million tons or so of rock would make a nice island. There is even some not far from Sealand. Would this not be a better way of gaining some soverignity than trying too get a nation to suceed a portion of land to you? At the very least it is certain to be successful. JAB.
In the response that IDG gave they said that they owned the trademark on "For Dummies" in respect to books and printed material.
That means that anyone can use the "For Dummies" phrase to refer to other products classes. So for example if I where to make a really easy to use video recorder I could market it as "A Video Recorder for Dummies" and even call it "VCR for Dummies"
Perhaps the most famous computing example is the word VAX, which is a trademark of both Digital (Compaq now) and whoever it is who makes the VAX vacuum cleaners. Same word trademarked twice because of the different product areas.
Now last time I looked a web page was neither a book or printed material, in which case IDG have not a leg to stand on.
JAB.