Yup, that seems to make sense. Looking it up, Cavendish mentions:
Defamation - successful
Monson v Tussauds (1894)
Tolley v JS Fry (1931)
Trademarks - obviously:-)
Copyright - Failed for "Kojak" (1975) and "Wombles" (1977)
No law to prevent people from photographing you in public, some privacy rights in the Moral Rights created by the new copyright convention (which mostly don't apply to computer programs).
Passing Off - failed for "uncle mac radio" (1947), failed for "Kojakpops" (1975), failed for "Abba" (1977) similar to the beckham t-shirt you mentioned, failed for "Wombles" (1977).
In different countries, "Crocodile Dundee" (1991) and Sesame Street characters have been protected under passing off, and in England "Ninja Turtles" succeeded in 1991, so perhaps the courts here are going more the way of other jurisdictions and buying into the idea of "IP rights holders". And the fact that it is a football game as opposed to a t-shirt or a breakfast cereal might make a difference to the courts.
What law prevents games companies from including real player's names in games unless they pay FIFA/UEFA/FA etc.
Have they all trademarked "Beckham", "Seaman", etc. or is it the dubious concept of copyrighting information (as opposed to the expression of it).
After all, despite what some fans think, there are several dozen "David Seaman" in the UK alone (yes the electoral roll is public information. God knows why it took Dave Gorman more than 10 seconds (with appropriate software) to look up his namesakes).
And yes I did work on a no-license game that died a death, and a big-licence game that sold bucketloads. Getting the right names in the product is very important to consumers (gameplay far less so).
You mean how to do certain tasks on a mac you have to hold down Ctrl Shift Alt Apple Umlaut 4?
I seem to remember that was a task in the introductory course (for copying the current window into the clipboard). The guy in the class with cerebral palsy did NOT find that easy (he could only really use one hand, slowly).
The mac interface (back then anyway) assumes two hands even more than the Windows interface.
I am very confused with US traffic laws that say you can run red lights, as long as you are turning right.
Is this specifically designed to kill pedestrians?
In the UK, when a pedestrian crossing says "cross" (or rather there is a green man there), it is safe to cross. In the US this is not the case it seems; everywhere is a game of Frogger/Freeway. And crossing at other places is illegal (jaywalking) apparently!
Imagine the guy/gal who installs traffic cameras hooking up their own little transmitter to surveil the intersection looking for their boyfriend/girlfriend/hermaphrodite riding in someone else's car!
We already have that in the UK:-)
An acquaintance has been told by his boyfriend's parents not to see him, and if said boyfriend appears on the CCTVs in that part of town (where acquaintance works) it will go badly for him:-(
Boyfriend's web page is very gushing (of course he is now banned from net) but who knows what may happen?
I think it would be most sensible to wait until he leaves home of course. But does the CCTV culture here make people change their courses of action?
You mean the game that
some people think was copied from its original inventors and turned into private IP?
I'm sure a company like MS would never do that... all their products are startlingly original compared to the state of the art when they were first cloned^h^h^h^h^h^hinnovated.
According to hollywood, if any cars made in detroit are so much as scratched by a road-sign at 20 miles per hour, they will explode in a huge fireball.
Has "War on Terror" become a euphemism for "Settle Old Scores"?
Considering the United States is harbouring Warren Anderson, who is responsible (as Union Carbide CEO) for more deaths than Osama Bin Laden and is wanted by the Indian government for his role in the deaths of thousands and injury of hundreds of thousands in Bhopal in 1984, it does seem a little one-sided.
It's more of a War on Terror except committed by our friends (e.g. France (rainbow warrior), Israel etc.)
It seems a lot of young people want to dress in uniform. So you see an entire street of people in Swooshes, trying to get that "mugger" look as seen in suspect descriptions in the local newspaper.
Personally I find someone with a bit more creativity more attractive.
If I buy clothes made in some filipina sweat-shop, i want them to at least be cheap! I don't understand why you would want to pay more to have them disfigured with a huge logo (but then, I don't understand why e.g. millions of male USians would chop off sensitive parts of their genitals, but they still do).
For instance UK journalists and newscasters are really hard questioners and don't give politicians an easy time in the way they do in many countries...
Let's see, we have:
Johnny Vaughan.
Richard and Judy.
Martin Bashir.
On the other hand we also have
Peter Snow
Jeremy Paxman
Ali G:-)
Hmm, depends who the politicians pick to interview them...
If the:-) was claimed to be first used online in 1982, the PCs character set (and other home computers) predates that, so it is simply a case of going back to the original idea. I use the right way up (circle, two dots, smile, nose) glyph when I am hand-writing letters, rather than:-)
I said that the US birthrate had risen, not that it was higher than India for example which has pretty much halved its birth rate but which is still higher than the US. You can see the trend though. There was a new scientist article about it last month, if you're a subscriber.
USians are breeding more now than 20 years ago, whereas nearly every other developed or developing (China, India) country has lowered their birth rate. In the case of Italy they are well below replacement levels. So the US is trying to outbreed the rest of the world
Its similiar to the way the Bush administration has decided to start off with the assumption that we need to invade Iraq, and its up to the iraqi government to prove their own innocence.:)
But they've proved that if Saddam had access to nuclear weapons grade material, and if he could get all the electronic parts, he could build a bomb and lob it as far as Israel.
Wow! They must think he has an internet connection or something (or the address of a mail-order libertarian library).
And yet, when was the last time you thought about the French? When you ate some French Fries?
Hey, they're Frites and they come from Belgium. Double-fried in beef fat, with mayonaise. I guess the US soldiers were a bit confused as to which country they were liberating at the time.
I'll avoid the McDonalds version (fried air and flour with a little bit of potato) and stick to the not-very-healthy-but-still-less-saturated- than-the-belgian-version called chips; british or irish potatoes in vegetable oil with salt and vinager. Yummy.
like what Disney did with the Grimm fairy tales and others did with Shakespeare and Tarzan and Dracula.
Of course, The Jungle Book and Peter Pan were borderline cases for that, since they were still under copyright (in the UK anyway) when Disney made their pirate versions.
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Yup, that seems to make sense. Looking it up, Cavendish mentions:
Defamation - successful
Trademarks - obviously :-)
Copyright - Failed for "Kojak" (1975) and "Wombles" (1977)
No law to prevent people from photographing you in public, some privacy rights in the Moral Rights created by the new copyright convention (which mostly don't apply to computer programs).
Passing Off - failed for "uncle mac radio" (1947), failed for "Kojakpops" (1975), failed for "Abba" (1977) similar to the beckham t-shirt you mentioned, failed for "Wombles" (1977).
In different countries, "Crocodile Dundee" (1991) and Sesame Street characters have been protected under passing off, and in England "Ninja Turtles" succeeded in 1991, so perhaps the courts here are going more the way of other jurisdictions and buying into the idea of "IP rights holders". And the fact that it is a football game as opposed to a t-shirt or a breakfast cereal might make a difference to the courts.
What law prevents games companies from including real player's names in games unless they pay FIFA/UEFA/FA etc.
Have they all trademarked "Beckham", "Seaman", etc. or is it the dubious concept of copyrighting information (as opposed to the expression of it).
After all, despite what some fans think, there are several dozen "David Seaman" in the UK alone (yes the electoral roll is public information. God knows why it took Dave Gorman more than 10 seconds (with appropriate software) to look up his namesakes).
And yes I did work on a no-license game that died a death, and a big-licence game that sold bucketloads. Getting the right names in the product is very important to consumers (gameplay far less so).
Or send hair dye/sunglasses/salon manual to two of the three guys, asking them to make it easier for you...
You would have thought they might have reconsidered that campaign.
I seem to remember that was a task in the introductory course (for copying the current window into the clipboard). The guy in the class with cerebral palsy did NOT find that easy (he could only really use one hand, slowly).
The mac interface (back then anyway) assumes two hands even more than the Windows interface.
Is this specifically designed to kill pedestrians?
In the UK, when a pedestrian crossing says "cross" (or rather there is a green man there), it is safe to cross. In the US this is not the case it seems; everywhere is a game of Frogger/Freeway. And crossing at other places is illegal (jaywalking) apparently!
We already have that in the UK :-)
An acquaintance has been told by his boyfriend's parents not to see him, and if said boyfriend appears on the CCTVs in that part of town (where acquaintance works) it will go badly for him :-(
Boyfriend's web page is very gushing (of course he is now banned from net) but who knows what may happen?
I think it would be most sensible to wait until he leaves home of course. But does the CCTV culture here make people change their courses of action?
I'm sure a company like MS would never do that... all their products are startlingly original compared to the state of the art when they were first cloned^h^h^h^h^h^hinnovated.
According to hollywood, if any cars made in detroit are so much as scratched by a road-sign at 20 miles per hour, they will explode in a huge fireball.
That's gotta be libelous!
I hear that Star Wars played at some places with a live orchestra but I didn't manage to see that unfortunately.
The simpsons claimed to have the second biggest orchestra on tv (after star trek) so maybe that would work, but I don't know.
But salaries are generally less even taking the exchange rate into account.
Still, at least chocolate is readily available :-) [i doubt that hershey's would be allowed to be marked as chocolate in the EU!]
had "Custer's Revenge" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" which were contraversial at the time.
Considering the United States is harbouring Warren Anderson, who is responsible (as Union Carbide CEO) for more deaths than Osama Bin Laden and is wanted by the Indian government for his role in the deaths of thousands and injury of hundreds of thousands in Bhopal in 1984, it does seem a little one-sided.
It's more of a War on Terror except committed by our friends (e.g. France (rainbow warrior), Israel etc.)
Personally I find someone with a bit more creativity more attractive.
If I buy clothes made in some filipina sweat-shop, i want them to at least be cheap! I don't understand why you would want to pay more to have them disfigured with a huge logo (but then, I don't understand why e.g. millions of male USians would chop off sensitive parts of their genitals, but they still do).
This was front page news in Taranaki, New Zealand for days!. Somehow seems less violent than where I live now. NZ front page news
Let's see, we have:
On the other hand we also have
Hmm, depends who the politicians pick to interview them...
If the :-) was claimed to be first used online in 1982, the PCs character set (and other home computers) predates that, so it is simply a case of going back to the original idea. I use the right way up (circle, two dots, smile, nose) glyph when I am hand-writing letters, rather than :-)
I said that the US birthrate had risen, not that it was higher than India for example which has pretty much halved its birth rate but which is still higher than the US. You can see the trend though. There was a new scientist article about it last month, if you're a subscriber.
USians are breeding more now than 20 years ago, whereas nearly every other developed or developing (China, India) country has lowered their birth rate. In the case of Italy they are well below replacement levels. So the US is trying to outbreed the rest of the world
But they've proved that if Saddam had access to nuclear weapons grade material, and if he could get all the electronic parts, he could build a bomb and lob it as far as Israel.
Wow! They must think he has an internet connection or something (or the address of a mail-order libertarian library).
Fine book, mixing science with a yarn about Rincewind and the other Unseen University wizards.
The Turtle Moves.
Cool book. Just be wary of signed copies.
[-1: tasteless]
I think we may safely say "disputed" :-)
If nothing else, the belgians would claim the french version doesn't taste the same...
http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_22/c3631157. htm
Hey, they're Frites and they come from Belgium. Double-fried in beef fat, with mayonaise. I guess the US soldiers were a bit confused as to which country they were liberating at the time.
I'll avoid the McDonalds version (fried air and flour with a little bit of potato) and stick to the not-very-healthy-but-still-less-saturated- than-the-belgian-version called chips; british or irish potatoes in vegetable oil with salt and vinager. Yummy.
Of course, The Jungle Book and Peter Pan were borderline cases for that, since they were still under copyright (in the UK anyway) when Disney made their pirate versions.