Chemists Make Olympic Rings On a Molecular Scale 89
ananyo writes "Chemists in the UK have made a five-ring polyaromatic hydrocarbon and dubbed it 'olympicene'. The molecule is just a couple of nanometers wide and can be regarded as a little fragment of graphene. Strictly speaking, of course, the molecule might constitute an 'unofficial use' of the motif and land the scientists in court for copyright infringement."
Re:Category error (Score:3, Interesting)
To be fair, when their own enforcement officers can't tell the difference, why expect a little news article to get it right?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4342335/Olympic-ban-for-florist.html [thesun.co.uk]
Coca-Cola threatened her for copyright infringement over their trademark. It was said literally one sentence after another.
So I in fact think it is perfectly justified to *repeat* the threats of trademark infringement and copyright infringement as Coca-Cola themselves have stated.
Re:Hardcoded famous trademark (Score:4, Interesting)
Not linked! (Score:2, Interesting)
Well it's OK I suppose, but the rings in the olympiadane molecule are properly linked, and that was synthesized already back in 1994.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympiadane