Rats As Well As Trolls

smells a rat

Bad word for lovers of pine-scented contest everywhere. WCAX reports that Texas-based Corndog Cards too Novelties has reached an out of courtroom village alongside Car-Freshner Corporation, producers of the tree-shaped air-fresheners for cars. Under the price of the agreement, the Texas companionship volition destination making greetings cards which characteristic a cast like to that of the tree.

didn’t realise that tree-shaped air-fresheners were an indication of root pointing dorsum to a unmarried company, maybe because he’s non a driver. He wonders if his readers did.

Time for copyright trolls?

has read inwards the New Zealand Herald of yet around other small-scale writer claiming that the big boys own got stolen his idea. This fourth dimension it’s Gavin Bishop, writer of 24-page children’s mass The Secret Lives of Mr too Mrs Smith. He claims that 20th Century Fox has infringed his copyright past times making the cinema Mr too Mrs Smith. While Bishop’s Smiths are spies, Fox’s Smiths are assassins. Bishop is nonetheless deciding what activeness to take.

says that past times directly we’re all familiar alongside the persuasion of the patent troll. Perhaps nosotros involve a novel concept – the copyright troll – to designate the band of authors who claim, on spurious bear witness that oft seems to rely on copyright inwards ideas too the loosest of plots, that big evil baddies own got stolen their stories. Ever the pragmatist, Merpel points out (i) Smith is actually rather a mutual cite too (ii) does it actually assistance Bishop to compare his children’s mass to a even close assassins containing rigid linguistic communication too sexual content?

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