Brand Delusion

Trademark

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Fri, May 20th 2011 5:28pm — Nina Paley

Based on a brilliant typo in a Techdirt comment.

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Filed Under: brand delusion, brand dilution, trademark

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Pixelation, 20 May 2011 @ 5:48pm

Brand Delusion the song...
Someone needs to make a song of this to Styx, Grand Illusion.
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Anonymous Coward, 20 May 2011 @ 5:56pm

Any living person who registers his/her given name as a trademark is definitely suffering from delusion, if not from an outsized ego.
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Anonymous Coward, 20 May 2011 @ 6:17pm

Re:
Thankfully, if they live in Britain, they can just get a super-injunction and that way they can protect their public/private lives and personal brand by suppressing any and all speech about them.

And some say freedom is dead!
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Pitabred (profile), 20 May 2011 @ 7:11pm

Hey! I wrote this comic!
And I demand to be paid! I generated the idea after all, everything else was just implementation and the real hard work... ;)
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btrussell (profile), 20 May 2011 @ 7:19pm

Re: Hey! I wrote this comic!
Here's a million doll hairs.
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Rich, 20 May 2011 @ 7:25pm

Wow, I'm flattered. I've never influenced anything in my life!
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Anonymous Coward, 20 May 2011 @ 8:19pm

Re:
That's the cool thing about the Internet (as it is now), it lets anyone much more easily contribute.

Outside the Internet the laws are intentionally set up so that you have to go through a govt imposed monopolistic gatekeeper to contribute and such gatekeepers ensure that they benefit the most from any contribution that anyone makes or else such contributions aren't broadcasted.

Of course politicians are aggressively seeking to pass laws that effectively turn the Internet into what they have wrongfully turned everything outside the Internet into.
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Unanimous Cow Herd (profile), 20 May 2011 @ 9:15pm

Just F'ing WOW!
"Brand Dilution"
Copyright 2011 Unanimous Cow Herd.
You have the RIGHT to Copy and Distribute this Freely!
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Anonymous Coward, 20 May 2011 @ 10:21pm

lame
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darryl, 21 May 2011 @ 1:34am

HA HA HA... ohhhh !!
Sorry Nina, but you just are not funny, or it appears that talented.

I would love to find that amusing, even slighly, I really would, (just to save you embarrasment)..

I tried, I really did..

with such good 'seed' info, surly you could of come up with something funny in regard to a simple typo !!

We'll keep trying, one day you might get funny, or talented.
Not sure if it will be in drawing though...

Thanks for trying...
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BearGriz72 (profile), 21 May 2011 @ 3:41am

Re: HA HA HA... ohhhh !!
How are Larry and your other brother Darryl, are they well?

Wow you are a moron.
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Anonymous Coward, 21 May 2011 @ 4:07am

Re: HA HA HA... ohhhh !!
Don't worry, making fun of people with talent is easy for her, as she doesn't even pay her own rent in Manhattan.
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Rich, 21 May 2011 @ 5:32am

Re: HA HA HA... ohhhh !!
So, what is your talent, being a boorish asshole?
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FUDbuster (profile), 21 May 2011 @ 6:12am

Re:
I thought it was a good one. Made me laugh. :)
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Anonymous Coward, 21 May 2011 @ 7:25am

Re: Re: HA HA HA... ohhhh !!
Not everyone can live in their mother's basements.
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Anonymous Coward, 21 May 2011 @ 9:13am

Re: HA HA HA... ohhhh !!
If you truly think nina is not talented then you clearly have not seen Sita sings the blues.
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Terry, 21 May 2011 @ 9:57am

Great work, Nina
Yet more evidence for Mike's arguments regarding the value of the conversation and how innovation and creativity are enhanced by it, not destroyed. Kudos to Rich for feeling flatterred rather claiming ownership.
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Anonymous Coward, 21 May 2011 @ 10:26am

Re: Re:
Is this the week you suck up to the freetards, Joe?
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Rich, 21 May 2011 @ 11:04am

Re: Great work, Nina
That's the thing that copyright maximalist doesn't understand. This didn't happen in a vacuum. It was serendipity. I made the mistake, Pitabred noticed it, and Nina made a comic out of it. How could anyone claim ownership? What other pleasing turn of events would happen if people didn't have to be afraid of being sued?
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Anonymous Coward, 21 May 2011 @ 11:51am

Re: Re: Great work, Nina
Won't somebody please think of the lawyers! What happens if we suddenly live in a world where art can be created without lawyers? The horror!
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Any Mouse (profile), 21 May 2011 @ 7:53pm

Re: HA HA HA... ohhhh !!
Coming from one lacking in any sort of talent, creativity, basic intelligence, common courtesy, or even the common sense to come out of a torrential downpour, I feel it safe to say that your comment is useless.

Maybe, just maybe, you'll be relevant or insightful. Someday.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 21 May 2011 @ 9:10pm

Brandy �Llusion
I�ll have some of that. *hic*
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techflaws.org (profile), 22 May 2011 @ 2:11am

Re: Re: Re:
Certainly more rewarding than to shilltards like you. Judging by the poor job you guys do here your payment seems to be quite poor as well. Not that you'd deserve any better
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techflaws.org (profile), 22 May 2011 @ 2:12am

Re: HA HA HA... ohhhh !!
Sorry Nina, but you just are not funny, or it appears that talented.

Says the guy who does not even have the talent to troll properly.
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