Hasbro Sends Sharron Angle Cease & Desist For Monopoly-Like Game Board On Website
from the cultural-commentary dept
It does seem odd that Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle (who apparently has a half-decent chance of winning) keeps running into intellectual property issues. Angle, of course, was the candidate who promised to sue Harry Reid, whose job she's trying to take, for copyright infringement, because his campaign reposted an older version of her website to suggest she was changing her positions. As far as I can tell, no such lawsuit was ever actually filed. However, Angle got into some infringement hot water herself when Righthaven sued her for copying a LVRJ article on her website. Now we can add Hasbro to the list. Hasbro, the notoriously overprotective game maker, is threatening Angle because she put up a fake gameboard for a game which attacks Reid. Apparently, the boardgame looks too much like Monopoly for Hasbro's tastes. Apparently, Hasbro wants to make sure it keeps its monopoly on Monopoly... If Angle actually wins, it would be nice if she then used her new job to help fix problematic intellectual property laws that get in the way of free speech, but seeing as she seemed willing (at least in talking) to use the laws herself in the same manner, I doubt we'll see anything productive from her on this topic.
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kinda reminds me of the TRIPLEA game
they tried to kill it off but source was out....
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Tea Party as a Branding Campaign
If it really is a "grass roots" movement, how and why do they have lawyers on the payroll? Only if it was a rebranding campaign would they be interested in protecting a trademark like tea party. Hah.
Here are the URDP cases-
http://www.udrpsearch.com/naf/1302969
http://www.udrpsearch.com/naf/1305291
http://www.udr psearch.com/naf/1326333
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do as i say not as i do
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Did that kool-aid taste good at the time?
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Closely followed by Nancy Pelosi.
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Deal.
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The irony isn't dripping, it's pouring...
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and it's basically been replaced by Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne in lots of places, apparently.
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C'mon it ain't happening.
You want to see change here is what it is needed.
Get somebody tell him what he needs to vote for, get others to elect people with the same instructions and then you have change, now electing the same people that will do the same things over and over again is just not that good.
People today are voting for people, they should instead vote for issues and take the people out as fast as they got there, they should not create roots and connections inside, that is what in part creates the current political system problems.
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Hang on a sec...?
I must be missing something and it's going to bug me. Help?
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The Benefits of Exercise
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The Benefits of Exercise
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