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To: Forgiven_Sinner
Defending a trademark is hardly the same as trying to stop him from publishing ANY book. This free speech defense is crap.

If I wrote a book called "Live from New York, It's Saturday Night and Al Franken still sucks" I suspect that NBC would want me to change the title as well.
12 posted on 09/04/2003 11:40:14 AM PDT by ko_kyi
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To: ko_kyi
Defending a trademark is hardly the same as trying to stop him from publishing ANY book. This free speech defense is crap.

If I wrote a book called "Live from New York, It's Saturday Night and Al Franken still sucks" I suspect that NBC would want me to change the title as well.

Good point. Franken's book jacket also has photos of TV's, tuned to Fox News and showing Bill O'Reilly among others. It does seem O'Reilly would have a case against his literal image being used to promote Franken's book?!

16 posted on 09/04/2003 12:13:22 PM PDT by 88keys
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To: ko_kyi
thats a great idea. Maybe the guy who wrote Al Franken is a buck-toothed moron could use that title for his follow-up.
19 posted on 09/04/2003 12:32:50 PM PDT by Charlie OK (If you are a Christian, please drive like one!)
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To: ko_kyi
>> If I wrote a book called "Live from New York, It's Saturday Night and Al Franken still sucks" I suspect that NBC would want me to change the title as well.

You need to change the part after 'and' to: 'Al Franken is a steaming turd.'
29 posted on 09/04/2003 2:49:13 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Tag line produced using 100% post-consumer recycled ethernet packets,)
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