“I have just gotten word that someone has registered “VirtualDub” as a “word mark” in Germany as of June 6, 2006 and is now sending out notices to people in that country demanding money for so much as mentioning the program and linking to the SourceForge download from their website. I, Avery Lee, have nothing to do with this and am vigorously opposed to any such registration. This is an attempt at fraud. Both the first public release of the program and the website registration far predate the word mark’s registration, and I have not authorized anyone to be a software distributor or representative on my behalf with regard to VirtualDub.”

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