[Brighton] Lord of the Bins

[BN9 BHA]

What a load of rubbish.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Did ‘Lord of the Dance’ have to change theirs too?

Lord of the Clear-ance?

 

[GT49er]

I think they're being a bit precious.

Good one! It took me a minute or two to get it though!

 

[Worried Man Blues]

I hope they used Bilbo BAGgins

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

No, it’s a bloody cheek. The phrase ‘lord of the’ is a part of the English language. How about ‘Lord of the Flies ?’ The bin man has not been charged for this defence. Next, I would advise he counter sue for malicious something or other.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I hope they used Bilbo BAGgins

Bilbo Recyclings

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Let's hope that a well-known fast-food chain don't get wind of the Turkish hairdressers that fairly recently opened in Grand Parade

 

[Official Old Man]

Great advertising. Every media outlet has picked this up, maybe with a nudge from the company (?) You cant buy this sort of press.

 

[beorhthelm]

While not the legal standpoint, for me it comes down to 'Is the copyright owner losing any money ?' due to the infringement - in this case the answer is no so no case to answer.

might affect damages, not a decision on infringement. this isnt so much about the name, its the logo and phrase which is fairly clear, if tounge in cheek, reference to the franchise.

 

[Stat Brother]

All I saw of Brighton yesterday was the loop out of the station from West coast to the Falmer shuttle.
Within that beautiful vista all I noticed was the full bins and rubbish strewn all over the floor.



That's cos Brighton is a shitehole.

 

[Audax]

In fairness to the Tolkien Estate, when you see the full advert it's pretty clear that they're using Lord of the Rings. With a tagline of "one ring to remove it all".

I do think it's a bit much for these huge organisations to enforce this with tiny companies though. It's not exactly impacting the Lord of the Rings enterprise in any way.

The difficulty is that if they don't enforce it on the little guys, it can become a lot more difficult to enforce against big players. Essentially the big players can use lack of enforcement as evidence that the trademark isn't being defended and therefore a right to use it. Hence these, on the surface, ludicrous enforcement stories.

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

NSC: Lords Of The Binfest

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[nickbrighton]

The amount of publicity they have got will probably be worth a small fortune, and as others have said, i suspect its not the name, its the whole "one ring to..." and the style of the logo etc. Its an obvious coppy from the Tolkien property.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Wait until Mr The Conquerer's estate find out about William The Concreter.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Katie Price's lawyers seeing a possible way to sue these guys to get her out of bankruptcy.

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[TugWilson]

Lord Ringwood must be shitting himself

if such a person exists and if so we claim all rights and copyrights and any other legal bs we can get away with #complete bollocks.com

 

[super-seagulls]

If it was just the name that would be one thing, but the whole logo is a copy.

Yep, it sounded a bit pathetic at first, but once you see the website, they clearly have a point.

 

[fruitnveg]

They got paid a lot for that.

Thus proving that they don't care a jot about the IP, only about the money.

 

[jcdenton08]

Thus proving that they don't care a jot about the IP, only about the money.

It’s their property to do what they like with. They get to pick and choose what to do with the licensing, it’s for nobody to decide except the owner of the IP.

Some cases can be ridiculous with overzealous lawyers going after one man bands just because they share a family name, for example.

This one is pretty cut and dried, they’ve used intellectual property they don’t own in order to obtain business by creating a connection in the publics mind between their company and an existing IP.

It was nice while it lasted, but I am firmly in the camp that says you have every right to defend your own intellectual property.

 

[jcdenton08]

Oh and incidentally I thought The Rings of Power was excellent, much preferred it to the stodgy and bloated Hobbit trilogy, which bored me to tears.