From: tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu (Tom Maddox)
Subject: Re: Copyright
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1991 05:45:58 GMT
Organization: The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington


In article <1991Sep30.143657@wilbury.cs.Virginia.EDU> mjc4y@wilbury.cs.Virginia.EDU (Matthew J. Conway) writes:
>AutoDesk people attempting to copyright the term 
>"Cyberspace" as a trademark for their line of
>486 based VR technology. William Gibson was evidently
>so steamed by this . . .

	He wasn't precisely "steamed."  More amazed and amused and unwilling
to let it happen without checking the situation out--at which point Autodesk
dropped the whole business.


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				Tom Maddox
			tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu
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