Dallas Morning News mentions Free Republic (in Michael Moore piece)

Dallas Morning News ^ | 5/19/03 | SerpentDove

[SerpentDove]

Not a huge groundshaking story, but as I sat down to my delicious dinner consisting of a Jack-in-the-Box® Sourdough Burger Combo and a Minute Maid® Orange Soda a little while ago, I flipped open the local bird-cage liner to the inside of the front page.

There I saw a couple of paragraphs about Michael Moore-on's upcoming phlegm, "Fahrenheit 911," a "crockumentary" ®* which seeks to tie President Bush to Osama bin Laden and 911.

Anyway, in the last sentence, it said that members of www.freerepublic.com, a conservative website, saw the phlegm as an attack on President Bush (which it is).

Once again, FR is promoted while the libs are exposed.

[SerpentDove]

*The term "crockumentary" is hereby copyrighted ©2003 SerpentDove Enterprises, Ltd., Inc.®©TM all rights reserved. Any usage in the Northern, Western, Southern, or Eastern quadrants of earth hereby prohibited by global copyright law, seeing as how I just made it up and kinda like the sound of it.

SerpentDove

[SerpentDove]

Jim Robinson; Ms. AntiFeminazi; clinger; Meeknming; maclogo

[joesnuffy]

here I thought it was a dorkudrama

[kellynla]

Moronmentary is more like it...

[Nachum]

Maybe it's just a dramamine.

[frosty snowman]

I like "Crockudrama" since it is a fictional genre.

[soccermom]

FYI --- For anyone who hasn't heard, Mel Gibson's Icon has dropped Moore. Mirimax is now funding the hatchet job.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Prepare to start paying for copyright infringement to someone else. crockumentary

[SerpentDove]

DANGIT!

But I did think it up, right as I was typing it out, I swear.

Oh well.

Maybe I'll invent the internet next.

:-)

SD

[SerpentDove]

Okay, then, Google this! "Upcoming phlegm."

So there.

[lonestar]

You better run. The copyright lawyers are coming for you for infringement.

[Sonny M]

Just out of curiousity, and I don't know if your kidding or not, but how does somone go and copyright something if they want? Whats the easist way to just go and copyright a phrase, name or line or whatever?

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Miramax is out.

[SerpentDove]

>>You better run. The copyright lawyers are coming for you for infringement.<<

First, they'll have to find the fictitious organization SerpentDove Enterprises Ltd. Inc.

[3D-JOY]

That's a Gorey idea!

Inventing the Internet! LOL

[SerpentDove]

>>Just out of curiousity, and I don't know if your kidding or not, but how does somone go and copyright something if they want? Whats the easist way to just go and copyright a phrase, name or line or whatever?<<

It was a joke.

How could you read that stuff and possibly take it seriously?

????

[Sonny M]

Okay, even if you are joking, how would somone go about copyrighting something anyway?

[SerpentDove]

BUT to copyright something, when it is published, you put a © beside your name, and maybe the date. It's really simple, and it is legal binding.

There are others who know more than I do, but I do know it is very, very simple.

SD

[SerpentDove]

>>Miramax is out.<<

I had heard that. Cool.

I suspect FReepers had something to do with that, too.

;-)

[PAR35]

You are actually asking about trademarks, rather than copyrights. Copyrights are automatic upon creation, trademarks take effort and must be defended.

From Law.com

copyright
1) n. the exclusive right of the author or creator of a literary or artistic property (such as a book, movie or musical composition) to print, copy, sell, license, distribute, transform to another medium, translate, record or perform or otherwise use (or not use) and to give it to another by will. As soon as a work is created and is in a tangible form (such as writing or taping) the work automatically has federal copyright protection. On any distributed and/or published work a notice should be affixed stating the word copyright, copy or ©, with the name of the creator and the date of copyright (which is the year of first publication). The notice should be on the title page or the page immediately following and for graphic arts on a clearly visible or accessible place. A work should be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office by submitting a registration form and two copies of the work with a fee which a) establishes proof of earliest creation and publication, b) is required to file a lawsuit for infringement of copyright, c) if filed within three months of publication, establishes a right to attorneys' fees in an infringement suit. Copyrights cover the following: literary, musical and dramatic works, periodicals, maps, works of art (including models), art reproductions, sculptural works, technical drawings, photographs, prints (including labels), movies and other audiovisual works, computer programs, compilations of works and derivative works, and architectural drawings. Not subject to copyright are short phrases, titles, extemporaneous speeches or live unrecorded performances, common information, government publications, mere ideas, and seditious, obscene, libelous and fraudulent work. For any work created from 1978 to date, a copyright is good for the author's life, plus 50 years, with a few exceptions such as work "for hire" which is owned by the one commissioning the work for a period of 75 years from publication. After that it falls into the public domain. Many, but not all, countries recognize international copyrights under the "Universal Copyright Convention," to which the United States is a party.

trademark
n. a distinctive design, picture, emblem, logo or wording (or combination) affixed to goods for sale to identify the manufacturer as the source of the product. Words that merely name the maker (but without particular lettering) or a generic name for the product are not trademarks. Trademarks may be registered with the U.S. Patent Office to prove use and ownership. Use of another's trademark (or one that is confusingly similar) is infringement and the basis for a lawsuit for damages for unfair competition and/or a petition for an injunction against the use of the infringing trademark.