General / Off-Topic What is going on in 'murica? (NB - No Politics)

[Para Handy]

Seriously, w and t and f (all together that is) plus LOL are subject to an attempt by Proctor and Gamble to be trademarked - as well as things like FML and NBD:

Procter & Gamble bids to trademark LOL plus other acronyms

'...Facebook, who trademarked the word “face” in reference to telecommunication services. Paris Hilton owns the words “that’s hot” and successfully sued Hallmark greetings cards for using it, while celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe trademarked “bananas”'

The whole place must be banananananananas. [wacky]

(Note the obligatory Pratchett reference.)

 

[Flash_Baggins]

(Note the obligatory Pratchett reference.)

​I COULD MURDER A CURRY

 

[Asp Explorer]

As Eddie Izzard famously said, you can mention anything completely bonkers, add the words “in America” and suddenly everyone is nodding in agreement

 

[Patrick_68000]

Is what the word "Crazy" is trademarked ?

 

[Gun Star]

Don't get me started on some of the weird stuff you fancy Europeans do...

I'm proud to say we are America....The country that mugs other counties in the back alley for parts of your culture and either murders it or blows it way out of proportion....


I never actually got the fascination of celebrities. I think most of them are high powered mutants of some kind. To weird to live.....To rare to die.

 

[Morbad]

Intellectual property laws have been out of hand for a while, probably going to get worse before it gets better though.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Intellectual property laws have been out of hand for a while, probably going to get worse before it gets better though.

We live in a very creative time.

Perhaps this complicates the things ?

 

[Koen]

Link in OP gives 404 Page Does Not Exist error.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Link in OP gives 404 Page Does Not Exist error.

I also noticed yesterday.

Perhaps the link is a copyright ?

 

[Para Handy]

Link in OP gives 404 Page Does Not Exist error.

I also noticed yesterday.

............

I see that it is because of the "nanny" settings of this board which doesn't like the letters w and t and f concatenated so they are removed from the url.

So here is a tinyurl link for the article https://tinyurl.com/y6uk6fm8

Hope that works.

OK - I have edited the OP to use the tinyurl link and seems OK now.

Thanks for pointing out the issue.