[Feedback] Amarok und WOW

[Christoph Spielmann]

Colin Guthrie schrieb:
> Gregory Meyer wrote:
>   
>> Just as Mike Oldfield can't complain about our using the name Amarok
>> for a music player, I don't think we have anything to say, nor is he
>> doing anything wrong, by naming a guild in WoW Amarok, which as he
>> points out is the inuit word for wolf.
>>
>> Even if we owned a copyright or trademark on the name, the use of the
>> word in WoW is for a sufficiently different purpose that I don't think
>> it matters anyway.  However, IANAL, so take that for what it's worth
>> :p
>>
>> Does anybody else disagree?
>>     
>
> I don't disagree, but an easy way to test the water is to create a guild 
> called "iTunes" and see if apple complain :p
>   
Erm that sounds more like committing financial suicide (just as naming a 
guild Microsoft or Apple ;) not that anyone would use those names anyway...)
> Col
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