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Topic: Disney Moves to Trademark "Seal Team 6"
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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 05-23-2011 04:34 AM
Sorry, exploitation for profit of people who put themselves in harms way for our safety, to me, seems beyond dispicable. Like when you drink really sour milk and you can't get that bad taste out of your mouth for hours.
For a company that purports itself to laud the highest of American patriotic values to go and stoop this low....well, let's just say nicknaming them The Rodent House seems an undeserved disservice to members of that innocent phylum everywhere. And I bet the majority of the public would agree with me if only they knew about it. But I am sure this isn't something corporate is shouting chim-chimeny-chim-chim-charoo from the rooftops.
Much in the same vein, these people for quite awhile were putting a statement at the end of their films in the credit crawl that said "For purposes of Copyright, the country of origin of this work is the United Kingdom." So they are willing to claim they are not Americans just to get some kind of copyright gain by claiming the film originated in the UK, which of course is a lie on its face. But like Bobby says, they will push it as far as they think they can go with the a good deal of confidence that no one is going to challenge them. I bet even kindly ole Walt wouldn't have renounce his American citizenship just to get some obscure benefit in the way the UK copyright law is written.
Overheard at a cocktail party after a Disney premiere (can't recall the film): it was around the time the copyright was about to expire on FANTASIA -- at that time the law was 50 years. A group of people including a Disney exec were conversing in a group when someone mentioned that they were coming up to Public Domain status for FANTASIA. The exce paused and laughed a little and said, "You really don't imagine that Disney is ever going to allow FANTASIA go into Public Domain, do you?" Everyone laughed. And of course, so far, he is right. They have plied Congress with wine, women (hookers) and probably hustlers rather than song, to get the copyright laws changed over and over in their favor. Now they've got it to 100 years plus the life of the author! Whatever THAT means. What's the "life" of Disney Productions?
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Martin McCaffery
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Posts: 2481
From: Montgomery, AL
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 05-25-2011 10:47 AM
Chris: I stand corrected on the trademark. I knew the gov't was finicky about their symbols, but didn't know they were trademarked. Must see if this is a recent development.
Frank: you (and Disney) are going to love this;>
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118037559
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Sony locks up Osama bin Laden pic
U.S. distrib rights for untitled project goes to Columbia Pictures
By JEFF SNEIDER
Columbia Pictures has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's untitled film about the black ops mission that killed Osama bin Laden.
Bigelow and Boal have been developing the project since 2008, long before bin Laden was killed during a high-stakes raid on his compound in Pakistan earlier this month, a seismic event that the duo plan to incorporate into the film, as Variety first reported (Daily Variety, May 3).
Bigelow and Boal will produce along with Annapurna Pictures principal Megan Ellison, while Greg Shapiro will exec produce. Bigelow, Boal and Shapiro previously produced "The Hurt Locker" for Summit. That pic won seven Oscars, including best picture.
Production is scheduled to start later this summer, and the film is skedded to hit U.S. theaters in the fourth quarter of 2012. Pic will likely be one of Sony's major awards contenders, as the only other film the studio currently has dated for the last quarter of next year is "Bond 23."
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Anslem Rayburn
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From: Yuma, AZ, USA
Registered: May 2002
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posted 05-26-2011 01:07 PM
quote: Fox News
Well, that was quick: Mickey Mouse has waved the white flag and surrendered to the real SEAL Team 6.
Disney is withdrawing its applications to trademark the name of the elite Navy squad responsible for killing Usama bin Laden, the Navy said on Wednesday.
"The Navy is committed to fully protecting our trademark rights as it pertains to this matter and will continue to examine all our legal options," Navy spokeswoman Amanda Greenberg told FoxNews.com, adding that the military continues to broaden Navy's existing portfolio.
Disney did not return numerous requests for comment.
A spokesman for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office also did not return calls and email requests for comment.
Earlier on Wednesday, FoxNews.com reported that U.S. Navy had countered Disney's trademark applications with filings of its own.
Two days after the not-so-secret-anymore elite unit took out bin Laden, Disney filed trademark applications expressing intent to use the name "SEAL Team 6" for purposes including: entertainment and education; video games, toys, Christmas ornaments, snow globes; clothing, hats, shoes.
Ten days later, on May 23, the Navy fought back with trademark applications of its own, the first for anything indicating membership in a military organization, the second for use in the category of clothing, footwear and headwear.
But a battle of the century never materialized, as just hours after FoxNews.com's original article was published, Mickey Mouse said G-O-O-D-B-Y-E to "SEAL Team 6."
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