Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @09:14PM from the let-me-know-how-that-works-out-for-you dept.

Nate the greatest writes "Do you know what is crazier than sending DMCA notices to a site like Lendink which doesn't host any content? It's when an author threatens to sue book reviewers over trademarks. Jazan Wild, a comics creator, is sending out threatening emails to any and all book blogs who review a recently published book called Carnival of Souls. The book was written by Melissa Marr, and it happens to use a title which Jazan Wild owns the registered trademark. He's also suing the publisher for trademark infringement, but HarperCollins is laughing it off. The book blog Bookalicious posted the email they got from Jazan. Needless to say they did not take down the review."

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Re:this is beyond ridiculous by Tastecicles · 2012-09-11 21:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

um, wha? I didn't trip the filter, if that's what you're getting at... besides, it's my keyboard, my thoughts. What are you, a punctuation Nazi?

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Re:Next, chef sues recipe users ! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-11 22:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Mod parent down for disinformation.
The growing trend is to use absolutely insane amounts of salt in all fast food and chain restaurant food to try to make it taste better since it's crap quality and leads to health concerns. Lowering salt content is not the same as removing it all together.
Clearly daem0n1x doesn't eat at local and/or fine dining restaurants where salt is used to enhance flavors and never overused.