Life and Adventures — trademark

Today's post is quite different from what I usually blog about, but it is an issue that I've been thinking a lot about, so I figured, what better way to get it off my chest than to write about it here. I've noticed, over the years I've been involved with this enterprise, that there are competitors in this field who either haven't studied copyright laws like I have, or who think, just because something is decades old, that, even if it is protected by copyright, they could likely get away with reproducing it and making it available for sale anyway....