JPH>MM>Network for WWW sites dealing with Star Trek.  If people can get 
similar
JPH>MM>sound and graphics from free, non-MSN sites, Paramount loses money.
JPH>MM>This is why they have been assaulting fan-created WWW sites.
JPH>  I wouldn't want to cost Paramount money.  I couldn't handle the
JPH>  resulting backlash.  And unlike many, I remember the dark days when
JPH>  there was *no* Star Trek.  It was as dead as Blake's 7.
As am I. :)  Actually, people really _are_ straining at gnats on
this one.  Legally speaking in the strictest sense, yes, Paramount
owns it all & can do what they will with it.  However, in the more
practical venue that both they *&* we live in, they're not going
to bother with any real wish to get a dime every time somebody
says the name "Jean-Luc Picard" or any of the other legally owned
items -- that would be straining at gnats on _their_ part & they
know it.  But to prevent theft of their trademarks, they're
obligated to add the {tm} or risk losing the protection of the law
when some brazen thief *does* try to abscond with it big time.
Any whining about the issue on the part of the fans is niggardly
& totally ridiculous.  As long as people don't get ridiculous
about it (as a number of folks did when they expropriated someone
else's legal property for their own wholesale personal use on
their web sites), TPTB aren't going to get bent over it. :)
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