copyrights

[Ben Doyle 03]

Can anyone tell me if Cornell TM owns the rights to all red squares??? I was going to use one in a project next week, but I don't want to break the Code of Conduct.

[Red Apple Rest]

Just a thought, but "Cornell University" may be trademark by our alma mater, but "Cornell" probably isn't.  I recall there is a Cornell College out somewhere, and I doubt they pay royalties to Cornell University.

[Ben Doyle 03]

yeah, but I'm talking about the new red Square?

[gwm3]

Well I am going to go ahead and out myself here (I knew I would have to eventually)...

I go to law school at Harvard, and good friggin luck getting their permission.  They won't even let the students use "Harvard" or even "HLS" on our class t-shirts.

[Will]

At this point, it just seems like too much trouble to get both "Cornell" and "Harvard" on the shirts.  However, I can't imagine either school having a problem with "Big Red" (or "Let's Go Red" or the like) and "Crimson".  I know Cornell isn't the only Red/Big Red school out there, at the very least, so Cornell isn't necessarily implied in the shirt (unless one knows the reference to the rivalry).

[Beeeej]

Trademarked.  Both of 'em.

Believe me, everywhere your mind is taking you to think of how to get around this issue, the University Relations people have almost certainly been there first.

Beeeej

[Will]

Dammit!  All right, that's it.  We need to do this illegally, and we can't distribute the shirts in Lynah.  We'll just have to do it elsewhere.

[Ben Doyle 03]

do they have a trademark on the rivalry??? ::nut::

[Ben Doyle 03]

Exactly. . .screw both schools! Well, maybe just Harvard(sucks) and we'll just forget about Cornell's involvement.

Underground we go. . .

[ugarte]

You sure are going "underground" in a very public way.  

To quote Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word -- I do not think it means what you think it means."

[Ben Doyle 03]

t'was a joke. . .:-D

[A-19]

hey everyone.

i spoke to lynne stack of the trademark dept @ Harvard this morning. i should know very soon about Harvard's decision. if harvard says yes, cornell has promised me to say yes also, granted that the athletics director okays the project. so many hoops, yes. but harvard has had my design since monday, and they have not outright rejected me, which gives me a little hope. we'll see, and i'll keep you posted (they don't call it a post for nothing).

-mike

[jeh25]

big red apple wrote:

To quote Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word -- I do not think it means what you think it means."

Does that make Andy Noel the six fingered man?

:-P

[jnachod]

I bet many of you remember this article from The Onion a while back - "Microsoft Patents Ones and Zeroes"

http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html

[CowbellGuy]

Ooh. A promise from Cornell. You can take that straight to the bank. ::rolleyes::