« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″  (Read 2607 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« on: May 13, 2011, 08:36:51 PM »
Quote
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

Almost as stupid as trying to copyright "Happy Brithday".  At least nobody tried to trademark "Mission Accomplished".
Logged
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2224/-127
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2011, 08:42:17 PM »
Wrong, just wrong.
Logged

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2011, 08:42:45 PM »
"Tacky" doesn't quite cover the sentiment at the moment.
Logged
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline RightCoast

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3438
  • Reputation: +185/-24
  • Semper Fi means more than most will ever know
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2011, 09:06:53 PM »
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.
Logged
nine eleven is a car
nine one one is an emergency service
September 11, 2001 was an attack
Never Forget, or Minimize.

Offline DefiantSix

  • Captain, IKS Defiant
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18667
  • Reputation: +1993/-189
  • "Set Condition One throughout the ship."
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2011, 09:28:21 PM »
Quote from: RightCoast on May 13, 2011, 09:06:53 PM
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.
Logged
"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
-- Capt. John Parker
"I'm not looking for forgiveness, and I'm way past asking permission"
-- Capt. Steve Rogers
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem."
-- Ronaldus Magnus

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2835/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2011, 09:36:50 PM »
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.
Logged
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1280/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2011, 06:18:41 AM »
Just one more reason to despise that overblown rat.
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2224/-127
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2011, 06:26:51 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on May 14, 2011, 06:18:41 AM
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.
Logged

Offline whiffleball

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2161
  • Reputation: +95/-21
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2011, 06:29:10 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on May 14, 2011, 06:26:51 AM
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.
Logged

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2224/-127
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2011, 06:36:54 AM »
Quote from: whiffleball on May 14, 2011, 06:29:10 AM
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.
Logged

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1280/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2011, 07:44:17 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on May 14, 2011, 06:26:51 AM
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.
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

Offline namvet

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1321
  • Reputation: +104/-78
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2011, 08:34:30 PM »
its gonna snowball. just like BL getting his shit blown away. im surprised the billboards haven't picked that up yet
Logged

"THERE ARE NO GREAT MEN. THERE ARE ONLY GREAT CHALLENGES THAT ORDINARY MEN ARE FORCED BY CIRCUMSTANCES TO MEET" - ADM WILLIAM F HALSEY

Offline Gratiot

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1288
  • Reputation: +45/-18
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2011, 01:14:01 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on May 13, 2011, 09:36:50 PM
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.
Logged

Offline DefiantSix

  • Captain, IKS Defiant
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18667
  • Reputation: +1993/-189
  • "Set Condition One throughout the ship."
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2011, 03:50:15 PM »
I was just reading this last night...

This portion made me think of this thread, so I bring it for your perusal:
Quote
..."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).

Logged
"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
-- Capt. John Parker
"I'm not looking for forgiveness, and I'm way past asking permission"
-- Capt. Steve Rogers
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem."
-- Ronaldus Magnus

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2835/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2011, 08:42:38 PM »
Quote from: Gratiot on May 15, 2011, 01:14:01 PM
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.
Logged
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline Thor

  • General Ne'er Do Well, Troublemaker & All Around Meanie!!
  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13103
  • Reputation: +363/-297
  • Native Texan & US Navy (ret)
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2011, 10:19:27 PM »
Quote from: Gratiot on May 15, 2011, 01:14:01 PM
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:
Logged
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."- IBID

I AM your General Ne'er Do Well, Troublemaker & All Around Meanie!!

"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."-Thomas Jefferson

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1280/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2011, 08:48:29 AM »
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

Offline thelaughingman

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 908
  • Reputation: +66/-34
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2011, 10:03:36 AM »
Nothing says "Disney" like shooting a terrorist in the head!   :thatsright:
Logged

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2224/-127
Re: Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″
« Reply #18 on: May 26, 2011, 10:42:38 AM »
Just reported on Fox, that Disney is backing down.  Good for them, but I still don't like them.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »