Re: Who got the rights?

From: Marc James Small (msmall(at)roanoke.infi.net)
Date: Mon Mar 15 1999 - 18:53:26 CST


At 07:35 PM 1999-03-15 EST, Curt Meinel wrote:
>As far as parts are concerned both Rick at Sunbeam Specialties and myself
>(Classic Sunbeam), have remade many parts over the years. Since Sunbeam like
>most British cars used many subcontractors such as Girling, Lucas,
Lockheed, I
>would think you would have to check each individual item for patent
>infringements.

Well, patent infringements aren't the problem: the issue is that of
copyright and trademark. As the trademarks haven't been used for many a
year, they are probably all lapsed by now. The copyright might be a
tougher issue but, under US law, at least, you probably don't need
permission to reproduce a Rootes Group publication.

A quick message to Peugeot should resolve this, in any event. I cannot
believe they would object, after thirty years, to the reproduction of
Rootes Group material.

Marc

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