Re: WCAP web site??

[Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>]

<<On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:15:00 -0400, "Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net> said:

> As a federal-assigned identifier of a publicly-held license, CAN call 
> letters be legally trademarked?

Absolutely.  Trademark protection depends on two factors:
distinctiveness and use.  Callsigns are certainly distinctive, since
they are normally chosen by and assigned at the request of the
licensee.  If a licensee chooses to brand his radio service using that
callsign (as opposed, for example, to calling it ``Grimblepritz 94.8''
and mumbling the callsign once an hour), there's no reason that I can
think of why it would not be eligible for trademark protection.

Hence the Federal registered trademark held by Withers Broadcasting on
the callsign WMIX.

-GAWollman