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Commented on Pez Candy Inc sues Museum of Pez Memorabilia for copyright infringement
I'm with #11, though I see the point of #8. But PEZ and their attorneys aren't automatons, I would think they could protect the trademark by licensing the Museum's use of the trademark in promoting Pez products and paraphernalia for...
Commented on As If
SCAUGHT and BTB are correct, I am a 1G buyer as well and I got the lower pricing. There's a qualification confirmation step to check your existing ATT account when you place the order from the Apple store. I'd been...
Commented on Distance to celestial objects chart
If, as stated, you'd get to the sun in 88.5 years, in the year 2000, you'd place yourself in the vantage point of mid-1911. Good call, Spikeles......
Commented on Distance to celestial objects chart
My quick pencil sketch math shows an average speed of 124.163mph to Saturn, 112.007mph to Jupiter at distance / stated travel time in years / 365 days / 24 hours. Roughly in the ball park of the top speed of...
Commented on Obama tells country "Serve Satan" (or not?)
Right wing nutbuckets aside, it's pretty amazing how many things you can read into reversed speech. I was working on a mashup which included Harry Belafonte's recording of the "Banana Boat Song" (ironically in Audacity) and if you reverse the...
Commented on Photo: Yaciretá hydroelectric power plant
DSMVWL THS: I nearly spewed my beer across the keyboard, good one. Except they extincted themselves with the unexpected results of too much power, and we would never... Uh, never mind. Are all hydroelectric power plants this beautiful? I remember...
Commented on The Easybeats, "Sorry" (1966)
Ah, thank someone that the brain cells are not yet gelatinous, another person thinks it early bee gee's, in this here youtube link to the Three O'Clock version... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_44fzAp9zf4 And there you have it....
Commented on The Easybeats, "Sorry" (1966)
This will very much date me, but I saw the Three O'Clock perform this live at the Stone on Broadway in SF in the early 1980's, and this unknown band, The Bangles, opened... No Leonard Nimoy on hand, however... I...

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The Rizz commented on Pez Candy Inc sues Museum of Pez Memorabilia for copyright infringement
they still have the right to control the PEZ name and copyright, end-of-story No, they don't. Trademark law does not allow you to just stop anyone from using your registered mark for any reason; there are strict limits to when you can do so. US trademark law specifically allows you to freely use someone else's trademark to identify that trademarked product. i.e., "we have a museum filled with PEZ dispensers", or just "PEZ Museum" is perfectly legal, so long as the museum actually contains real PEZ products....
Maddy commented on Pez Candy Inc sues Museum of Pez Memorabilia for copyright infringement
Pez corpo is dumb and dull from my own experiences. When the movie "Stand by Me" came out, there was this great Pez commercial: "If you had one food to eat for the rest of your life -- what would it be?" "Easy -- Cherry Pez." Not only was this in the movie, but it was featured in the movies' trailers. I wrote Pez about this, figuring they would be wise about this in the aftermath of the whole Reces Pieces debacle. Wise, because currently in the stores at the time of the movie -- YOU COULD NOT GET CHERRY...
Church commented on Pez Candy Inc sues Museum of Pez Memorabilia for copyright infringement
It *used* to be that having a trademark on Pez meant that nobody else could market a candy with that name. Brand dilution was if people started using the word 'pez' when they meant 'candy.' How the heck did that turn into the right to control what anybody does with a Pez dispenser ever?...
fenrox commented on Pez Candy Inc sues Museum of Pez Memorabilia for copyright infringement
I am STILL waiting for my weaponized PEZ, thank you very much....
Eric Smith commented on Pez Candy Inc sues Museum of Pez Memorabilia for copyright infringement
Demanding that the museum stop selling modified Pez dispensers demonstrates that the company doesn't understand the Doctrine of Exhaustion. As long as the museum doesn't misrepresent the modified dispensers as being unmodified products of Pez Candy Inc., they have no basis for a complaint....

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