================================================ Subject: 2 creeds? 3 possibly? From: "Ross Johnson" To: Date: Wed 11 Jul 2001 16:09:18 +0100 ================================================ Does 'our' Creed own the trademark??? if they don't, it'll be interesting to know if the other creed is aware of its (our creed) existence, as I presume both Creeds have released CDs in Finland. Luckily, for our Creed, The Finnish population consists mainly of blondes, so they may just be in luck. However, just to add fuel to the fire. Didn't our Creed's name come from the band Flip(??) was in before Creed. It was also named Creed if I remember correctly. Head is spinning now. Now Fuel. As Agie and I'm sure a few others are aware of. When Fuel decided to release their debut CD sunburn in Europe, they had to change the name of their band (overhere anyway) to Fuel238. I am assuming it is because there is another Fuel overhere. However, when they released their 2nd cd, they lost the 238 bit for some reason, and are now known as Fuel all over the world. So God knows what happened there Mr Mungo --- Keith Mears wrote: > Okay, Debbi asked the question earlier about whether > or not a U.S. copyright would have any implications > on a foreign band. Well, I did a little digging and > came up with the following, from the U.S. Code, > Chapter 4 (Tariff Act of 1930). > (Incidentally, I mentioned "copyrights" in my > orginal post on the thread, but it should be > "trademarks"; sorry for the mix-up): > > Sec. 1526. Merchandise bearing American trade-mark > > a.. (a) Importation prohibited > Except as provided in subsection (d) of this > section, it shall be unlawful to import into the > United States any merchandise of foreign manufacture > if such merchandise, or the label, sign, print, > package, wrapper, or receptacle, bears a trademark > owned by a citizen of, or by a corporation or > association created or organized within, the United > States, and registered in the Patent and Trademark > Office by a person domiciled in the United States, > under the provisions of sections 81 to 109 of title > 15, and if a copy of the certificate of registration > of such trademark is filed with the Secretary of the > Treasury, in the manner provided in section 106 of > said title 15, unless written consent of the owner > of such trademark is produced at the time of making > entry. > So, the basic gist is, as long as the Finnish Creed > does not sell it's records in the United States, > then the American Creed has no legal ground for > action. > ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp