Re: Re: Scanning books into electronic format

>Doesn't this require that the characters are registered as trademarks?
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>====>Only if the copyright has expired, Pre 1923 for most U.S. works.

I know this is getting a bit far afield (and possibly naive), but I've sometimes wondered: is there some sort of international harmonization of trademark law. If a character was developed outside the US but its copyright under US law has expired (like say Peter Pan) does a US author have to worry about the possible existence of foreign trademarks on that character? Received on Mon Sep 18 2006 - 20:45:30 GMT