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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on May 13, 2011, 08:36:51 PM
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Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
In a perfect example of a big media company looking to capitalize on current events, The Walt Disney Company has trademarked “Seal Team 6,” which also happens to be the name of the elite special forces team that killed Osama Bin Laden.
The trademark applications came on May 3rd, two days after “Seal Team 6″ was included in thousands of news articles and TV programs focusing on the operation.
Media Bistro (http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/disney-trademarks-seal-team-6_b35689)
Almost as stupid as trying to copyright "Happy Brithday". At least nobody tried to trademark "Mission Accomplished".
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Wrong, just wrong.
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"Tacky" doesn't quite cover the sentiment at the moment.
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I'm willing to give a company like Disney the benefit of the doubt and say they took the name to keep somebody else from getting it.
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I'm willing to give a company like Disney the benefit of the doubt and say they took the name to keep somebody else from getting it.
I'm not.
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Meh. I'd say it's capitalism, pure and simple. Kudos to Disney for getting to it first.
Not that I'd be buying anything they're pimping, based on their coup.
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Just one more reason to despise that overblown rat.
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Just one more reason to despise that overblown rat.
The fact that they charge more for their DVD's than any other studio is enough reason for me.
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The fact that they charge more for their DVD's than any other studio is enough reason for me.
I just heard that last week. I haven't bought anything Disney in decades and was clueless.
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I just heard that last week. I haven't bought anything Disney in decades and was clueless.
Last time I checked, their DVDs are $4-5 dollars more than other current releases.
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The fact that they charge more for their DVD's than any other studio is enough reason for me.
That and they've never exactly treated their employees well, and will come down on anyone who uses any of their stuff like a ton of bricks--like the daycare center in FL a couple of years back that was sued by Disney for having a painting of Mickey on one of their walls.
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its gonna snowball. just like BL getting his shit blown away. im surprised the billboards haven't picked that up yet
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Meh. I'd say it's capitalism, pure and simple. Kudos to Disney for getting to it first.
Not that I'd be buying anything they're pimping, based on their coup.
I really would have thought that the name of a former military unit, would be the property of the US Military, Government, and... tax payers.
Personally, I consider it pretty offensive.
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I was just reading this (http://www.hatrack.com/writingclass/lessons/2004-04-01-2.shtml) last night...
This portion made me think of this thread, so I bring it for your perusal:
..."Individual words can't be copyrighted. They CAN be trademarked, but contrary to rumor you have no responsibility, as a fiction writer, to respect trademarks - only if you were marketing a product would you have such a responsibility.
McDonald's would have no grounds to sue you for having a character walk into a McDonald's.
They might WANT to sue you if you depicted McDonald's as a purveyor of meat derived from dead human corpses, but it would be tough for them to get past the "poetic license" and "satire" and "humor" restrictions on the libel laws. (If you were writing nonfiction, that is entirely a different matter.)"
The way I read this, so what if "Seal Team 6" is trademarked to DisneyCorp? It won't give them grounds to sue the government to get the Navy to stop using the identifier for the actual team in question. The Navy's "ownership" of the term demonstrably pre-dates the Stoopid Rat's® attempt to put a legal lock on the term. It's not going to cause newspaper firms to chip a dime into the Stoopid Rar's® retirement fund every time they print a story involving the REAL SEAL Team 6: the navy's prior ownership would throw the wrench in it in a big hurry.
About the only thing this does for the Stoopid Rat®, is lock in who is going to see all the profit from the forthcoming "SEAL Team 6 Action Figures® (with kung fu grip).
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I really would have thought that the name of a former military unit, would be the property of the US Military, Government, and... tax payers.
Personally, I consider it pretty offensive.
I understand your point, but "SEAL Team 6" is the name of a distinguished combat unit, but the actual name itself is merely a number.
The SEALs actually IN that unit and their mission make it unique. Those people and entities can't be trademarked, AFAIK.
I'm no copyright or trademark attorney, but I think it might be difficult to try and grab a number and make it property of the government or anybody else.
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I really would have thought that the name of a former current military unit, would be the property of the US Military, Government, and... tax payers.
Personally, I consider it pretty offensive.
:hi5:
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Oh, shit, Mickey! You dun goofed now!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/25/navy-seals-fights-mickey-mouse-trademark/
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Nothing says "Disney" like shooting a terrorist in the head! :thatsright:
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Just reported on Fox, that Disney is backing down. Good for them, but I still don't like them.