Can We Make A Power Hour Drinking Game Around Ridiculous Trademark Disputes?
from the drink-up dept
A whole bunch of folks have sent in variations on this story of how some guy, who started selling various products (DVDs and such) marketed around the phrase "power hour," (based on the well-known drinking game called "power hour") was able to get himself a trademark on the term. He's been using this trademark to bully others who have used the very, very generic phrase "power hour" in various projects, including musician Ali Spagnola, who created 60 one-minute "power hour" songs to go along with the drinking game, and the website PowerHourHQ, which is devoted to the drinking game. Apparently, the guy with the trademark, Steve Roose, has been sending around cease & desist letters, demanding the removal of all content that mentions "power hour." Anyway, seems like there should be a decent drinking game around these types of stories on Techdirt since we get so many these days...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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Take a drink whenever the word "draconian" appears in a TechDirt post. ;-)
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Every time I have to press a nav key (i.e. scroll) I take a big ol' sip off my pint of IPA.
With the initial load errors its WAP browser makes me wade through, I polish off pint#1 in 4 minutes, and pints 2..n 10 minutes each.
On a good day, I'm fairly sloshed when I leave here :)
-NK
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Monopoly with external prison and restart ?
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Well, if we take your post for what it is, the game will never be finished. Everyone would just be going from "jail" to "go" and back again. Even if someone manages to take their five turns one day, the next article would just send everyone back to "jail" or "go". That doesn't make any damn sense.
So, everyone drink.
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Everyone would be in jail and running in circles because there is so much patent and copywrong abuse that occurs that the game would be a disaster. This is why our current patent and copywrong system needs to be fixed.
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We could of course, for the sheer fun of it, add a TAM-rule. If you throw three times 6 in two throws then TAM will trample on your prospective property and remove that house you might be able to buy in the future.
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Somebody needs to
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I nominate you.
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O_o
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I think somebody had a little too much to drink at the trademark office.
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This article...
LOL well good luck. Taunting is fair use, of course, right? ;)
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