From: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 95 16:30:31 PDT
To: Steven Levy <steven@echonyc.com>
Subject: Re: "Hackers"-- brief review and anecdote...
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>>I saw "Hackers" yesterday. It's not bad and its political sensibility is
>>very cyberpunk. The ad campaign even uses the tag line, "Their only crime
>>is curiosity."
>
>It may not be a crime, but it's not nice to steal a title.

Well, what do you think of my latest predicament. My first book, "Agents
Unleashed" will be retitled "Agents At Large" because SAMS, a division of
Viacom, considers any title ending with the word "unleashed" to be an
infringement of their tradedress. They came up with enough legal
mumbo-jumbo about trademark to scare my publisher into changing it.

-Peter