Re: virus: IdeoHazard

David McFadzean (david@kumo.com)
Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:54:50 -0600


At 05:49 PM 30/07/97 -0400, Wade T.Smith wrote:

>Is there a protected intellectual property to the _real_ biohazard
>symbol, and if so, who's? and in what way does applying a marble-ized
>texture map amount to changing this universal symbol to a unique
>intellectual property?

I created the Ideohazard (at the prompting of Lee Daniel Crocker) to
replace the jaded (:-) biohazard. See http://virus.lucifer.com/symbols/
I really like the biohazard but, as many people pointed out, it can't
be trademarked and it already has too many meanings unrelated to the CoV.

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