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June 11, 2003
Our local AMC movie theater runs a clip before each movie reminding us that Silence is Golden. Of course, they also slap a "registered trademark" sign on the phrase thusly: Silence Is Golden® Oh sure. And I wrote the lyrics to the taunt "Nah nah nah nah nah nah"®. (Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary wrote the music). Gimme a freakin' break! Posted
by D. Weinberger at June 11, 2003 02:11 PM
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Martin
Posted by: Martin | June 11, 2003 02:39 PM
does this mean you've finally seen the matrix 2
Posted by: trevor | June 11, 2003 10:00 PM
Has anybody trademarked The Bible yet?
I'm off to my lawyer.
OK - so I'm from Denmark, and our situation is slightly different.
But my name is Langemark, and if you search "Langemark" on Google, it will ask if you did not really mean "Lyngemark". I mean - that is hijacking my identity - or what? Someone actually paid to take the traffic from my name to theirs.
First they buy the rights to your genes, then to your language, and then your name......
Free trade - what a circus!
;-)
Posted by: Gunnar Langemark | June 12, 2003 03:59 AM
"Hey, it could happen." Oops, sorry, that phrase and about 200 more have been trademarked by McDonalds.
Posted by: Betsy Devine | June 12, 2003 09:08 AM
Ha, funny you should mention the "Silence is Golden" thing at AMC. I noticed the same thing about a month ago when, after resisting going to any AMC theatre for over 2 years, I went to see Matrix Reloaded at an AMC theatre.
Posted by: brian dear | June 12, 2003 10:50 AM
Of course then there is the Jihn Cage society which sued a guy for using a long piece of silence in his music. Totally ludicrous. Not sure what the outcome of that lawsuit was.
Posted by: Paul | June 13, 2003 10:52 AM
The composer settled with the estate of John Cage--the payment was smallish and went to a worthwhile cause, if memory serves. It struck me as an equitable settlement.
Posted by: adamsj | June 19, 2003 08:51 AM