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Not so smiley any more?

Apparently the smiley face is copyrighted. And that makes Wal-Mart feel unhappy. Or perhaps :( .

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One Response to “Not so smiley any more?”

  1. Nelson Pavlosky Says:
    May 9th, 2006 at 8:25 am

    It may be <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark” rel=”nofollow”>trademarked</a>! Not <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright” rel=”nofollow”>copyrighted</a>. Copyright appears nowhere in that article, copyright is a different section of the law. You’re falling into the trap of conflating copyrights and trademarks which <a href=”http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml” rel=”nofollow”>RMS warns us about</a>.

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