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Re: WJIB's Bells
A. Joseph Ross posted:
>Generic bells couldn't be trademarked, but a certain sound of bells
>probably could. I have no doubt, for example, that the NBC chimes are
>trademarked.
I believe that they are, and if I recall correctly, they were the first
'audio' trademark ever registered, back in the 1940s. Not only are the
three notes specified, but the octave and type of chime they are.
Ed Hennessy
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