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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: PRODIGY RIPS-OFF BUS[
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drogers@csun.edu (David D. Rogers)

>Phil <project@phoenix.net> wrote:
>: Good Point here!   Especially in your case, a professional journalist
>: first with the Informer, and now with the DEpersona and creative
>: endeavors on the net...The Cross Town Bus(tm) and Road toad'l Freedom(tm)
>: are Your copyrighted concepts.... and they have used these in context
>: as well.
>:
>: I'd say the case is rather cut and dried especially in view of your
>: book in progress, songs, and probably involvement in the movie of the
>: century.
>:
>: Phil

David:
>Is Pl*digy censoring these posts? Let's hope not!!

Me:
: >Faithful Reader,
: >
: >I hope you will be as outraged as I was when I saw the new
: >Prodigy commercial with featuring the Crosstown Bus to Toad'l
: >Freedom[tm].  Barry White (!) was driving.  He didn't have a hat
: >*or* a badge.  The bus represented a newsgroup "music" and kept
: >changing to different occupants each time the subject changed.
: >
: >I was not contacted or asked for permission to use *my*
: >trademarked logo.  Royalties are being paid to neither me nor
: >Sirilyan (my partner in the busline).

David:
>Is this bus-line a church?

    It can't be both?

: >Prodigy is hereby put on notice:  Either contact me and make
: >arrangements to reimburse me for the use of my mark, or prepare
: >to face a costly lawsuit being prepared by your humble narrator.
: >
: >This is no joke.
>
>How much is this commercial costing you, Dennis? :)

    Very funny, David.  But I said it was not a joke.  Stop
    making fun of me.

: >ps. Barry, I don't know how you could rip me off so shamelessly.
: >I usta think you had more class than that.
: >
: >Well, actually ... I didn't really. - DE
>
>He's making a comeback. He should be able to pay should Sears and IBM go
>broke. :)

    Barry's making a comeback?  The Johnnie Mathis of soul music?

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