Ah, yes, Andy. An innovative answer. I think they have themselves convinced that we want to come in someday and confiscate any vehicles or whatever that have the logo on them because they were ARRL property. Some people create monsters in their own heads. Jim Weaver, K8JE Director, Great Lakes Division ARRL 5065 Bethany Rd., Mason, OH 45040 Tel.: 513-459-0142; E-mail: k8je@arrl.org ARRL: The reason Amateur Radio Is! MEMBERS: The reason ARRL Is! -----Original Message----- From: Andy Oppel [mailto:andy_oppel@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:33 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:10989] Re: ARES COPYRIGHT Just ask them if they'd mind if it appeared on a T-shirt that promoted BPL. Without registering it as a trademark, we have very thin legal protection. (At least Lexington is pretty country... I went to college there). -- Andy Oppel, N6AJO At 03:19 PM 7/25/2004, you wrote: Is anyone else getting flack over the motion we passed about ARES, displaying the copyright mark and ownership of materials? I'm getting it from some very hotheaded folks around Lexington, KY who appear to have gotten each other into a feeding frenzy. I'm considering driving down there to meet with them and am just wondering if I'm the only person lucky enough to have a fomenting revolution at hand. Other than this hot spot, I've fielded a couple of benign, curiosity-stimulated questions as to "why now?" from outside of KY. Tnx Jim Weaver, K8JE Director, Great Lakes Division ARRL 5065 Bethany Rd., Mason, OH 45040 Tel.: 513-459-0142; E-mail: k8je@arrl.org ARRL: The reason Amateur Radio Is! MEMBERS: The reason ARRL Is!