Another Lawsuit Over Costume Copyrights: Gorilla Holding A Cage
from the feeling-caged-in? dept
Following our recent story about copyright on Mardis Gras costumes, it seems that now we're hearing more and more about costume copyrights. THREsq points us to the news of a lawsuit involving the maker of those "gorilla holding a cage" Halloween costumes (pdf) claiming that a competing gorilla-holding-cage costume maker was violating its copyrights:Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Competition
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Certainly this cannot be good for the fashion industry.
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Aww, who the hell am I kidding? As if the reviewer is going to check for prior art!
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What if I use a real Gorilla and stuff the lawyers in the cage? Is that copyright infringement?
Only if the lawyers are still alive and holding the bars.
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My 2 cents.
So all the lawyers will now have to pay me or cut off their 2 inch long wankers.
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Oh My God
Mike you seem to be against anyone thats creative. If it were up to you these guys would all starve in the streets, forced to make costumes in Time Square with a little latex fedora, begging passers by for spare change. Get this through you thick skull! If they cant earn a living by creating costumes they wont make new costumes. Imagine a world without costumes, imagine Halloween all the little children looking up at you through the awkwardly cut holes in their parents bed sheets. Just think about the children for once!
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Copyright???
This is ridiculous.
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Costume Copyrights
Any thoughts on what a girl's to do?
Susan Tsu
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Silly
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