Joined: 30-Dec-2004 Posts: 530
From: United Kingdom
@mbrantley
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Please leave Amiga Addict alone. Follow the example of Commodore and publications such as Amiga World and others that have used the Amiga name. They all helped the marketplace as a whole, as Amiga Addict and Amiga Future are doing now. Don’t be jerks.
The way I see it AmigaKit are essentially a retailer using the word 'Amiga' in their name to indicate what their products relate to. They do not own the Amiga IP, they are not Commodore or Amiga Inc. Their behaviour in trying to block others from using the word is outrageous and seems selective...
What about AmigaFuture magazine? Why interfere with AmigaAddict (and AmigaPassion before this) but not AmigaFuture or AmigaForever for that matter?
In my mind AmigaAddict/Simulant would have just as much right to use the word 'Amiga' as Matthew Leaman's shop does. I assume neither pay the rights holder the use of the word and the benefit gained from its use.