RE: e-fax versus efax

["Daniel Frankham" <daniel -dot- frankham -at- saabsystems -dot- com -dot- au>]

Hi Laura,

I haven't been following these court cases, but I presume they are to do
with trademarks rather than copyright, as words are not subject to
copyright.

See, e.g. http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ34.html

-- 
Daniel Frankham

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura Praderio Lynn
> Sent: Friday, 18 July 2008 6:23 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: e-fax versus efax
> 
> hi,
> 
> there seem to be a number of court cases pending over the 
> copyright of eFax and some other variations of the word.
> 
> we use e-fax, which follows the e-prefix trend; courts don't 
> seem to touch this hyphenated variation as with e-mail.
> 
> but email is in common use, so, does anyone have any 
> copyright info on efax for generic use? i know efax is a 
> product developed by casus but wanted to know about generic use.
> 
> i have already done a solid search on the Internet and 
> browsed through the eFax court basics.
> 
> cheers,
> laura
> 
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