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Old February 10th 09, 04:05 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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On 10 Feb, 16:53, Tom Anderson wrote:
There was as big fuss a while ago about the use of the red cross in video
games: many fighting-related games have medical packs you can pick up to
restore some of your character's health, and the red cross is pretty much
universally used to label them. The ICRC were understandably not happy
about their logo being used in warlike games!


In America, the red cross trademark is owned by Johnson & Johnson, who
a few years ago ended up suing the American Red Cross for using it on
commercial products.

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