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Sep 13, 2005 20:11

Watching Babylon 5 Season 3. It's somewhat frightening in its depiction of jingoism, the depiction of governments taking away civil liberties inch by inch, political machinations manipulating the populace and keeping them in the dark. The media made the puppet of the administration. Battlestar Galactica is a far darker, grittier picture of the ( Read more... )

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okita September 14 2005, 00:28:32 UTC

I read that as Mister D, which took me a while to parse =P

Well, my XBox is on the second floor, I've seen up to 203 or so, so feel free to get started without me =) And if you do end up watching, get someone to let me know.

kej September 14 2005, 01:42:02 UTC

Dude, I'm ahead of you already? WEAK SAUCE! I only started watching on SUNDAY! XPPP

Though that reminds me, I need to get B5 from you sometime. You should come play in our go tournament or something. =3

kej September 14 2005, 01:42:42 UTC

Er... last Sunday, I mean. (The 4th.)

jimboomega September 14 2005, 12:20:33 UTC

Yeah, but what ever would we do if Mickey Mouse enters public domain?

Trademark is still good, though, right? As I understand, something is a trademark if it's used as the symbol of whatever it is - like the Coca-Cola logo trademarked by Coca-Cola. It seems reasonable that people shouldn't be able to take the log and put it on their own merchandise; that'd just create consumer confusion.

okita September 14 2005, 15:12:06 UTC

I don't know that too much abuse has occurred in terms of trademarks. Some comments to the /. article mentioned that in Germany, a telecom giant sued over using T in front of a product (Apple hasn't tried to sue over the name of the iRiver mp3 player, right?) or the use of the color magenta in an ad or something ridiculous. So the potential is there, it's just that the courts are probably better equipped to make reasonable judgement calls in this regard. Obviously there are good justifications for trademarking logos and such as you mention. But there's still the basic problem of using litigation to solve everything: I'm sure there are cases where the little guy gets strongarmed out of a trademark because a large corporation can afford better lawyers.