From: "Paul H. Merrill" <paulmerrill@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 23:14:31 +0800
To: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Subject: Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd)
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> > Hmm... There's no copyright on perfumes.  There are market leaders in perfumes,
> > but no monopoly; hardly even an olygopoly.
> 
> I can tell how often you buy perfume, the ones I buy for my girlfriend
> certainly have a little 'c' on them...

The names of perfumes are (generally copyrighted.  The perfumes
(fragrances) themselves are not.  This leaves the door open for
knock-offs of the scent that then market under their own names -- and in
some cases, claims of being just like "whoever".

The situation is not parallel to sw because noone but a linux freak
hopes to swep anyone off their feet by putting a ribbon around a tiny
bit of sw and giving it for a BDay or VDay or whatever, astheydo with
the top name parfums.

PHM