Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement 218
Nate the greatest writes "Do you know what is crazier than sending DMCA notices to a site like Lendink which doesn't host any content? It's when an author threatens to sue book reviewers over trademarks. Jazan Wild, a comics creator, is sending out threatening emails to any and all book blogs who review a recently published book called Carnival of Souls. The book was written by Melissa Marr, and it happens to use a title which Jazan Wild owns the registered trademark. He's also suing the publisher for trademark infringement, but HarperCollins is laughing it off. The book blog Bookalicious posted the email they got from Jazan. Needless to say they did not take down the review."
Next, chef sues recipe users ! (Score:5, Funny)
If DMCA can be applied to kitchen, maybe a chef who trademarked "salt" would sue anyone who dare to use salt in their cooking
Re:Next, chef sues recipe users ! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:this is beyond ridiculous (Score:5, Funny)
But I would agree to a patent on TYPING ALL CAPITALS.
Re:this is beyond ridiculous (Score:3, Funny)
If you think that by using caps lock you can get me to do what you want... Well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying that because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Re:Next, chef sues recipe users ! (Score:4, Funny)
I can only reply with one thing:
A big fucking WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!
Re:this is beyond ridiculous (Score:5, Funny)
Capitalization nazi, not punctuation nazi. And apparently also a semantics nazi.
Nazi should be capitalized.
So you're anti-semantic? (Score:5, Funny)
And apparently also a semantics nazi.
Wouldn't being a semantics nazi make you an anti-semantic?
Re:Read the trademark! (Score:5, Funny)
"This is Slashdot and nobody seems to have done a simple USPTO search!"
Because we use Google, not some weirdo search thing!