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Y'all, I have seen actual legal arguments about trademark violations from actual attorneys (though not IP attorneys) that weren't written and cited as well as
synecdochic's post, goddamn.
they really should have known the one thing we know is how to bring receipts aka Trademark Law Lies and the Dudes Who Perpetuate Them.
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they really should have known the one thing we know is how to bring receipts aka Trademark Law Lies and the Dudes Who Perpetuate Them.
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Date: 2019-09-24 08:33 pm (UTC)I mean I looked around on the internet and people have been making bootleg rocket pins, pins that say "Hugo Award", rocket pins that say "Hugo Award," for quite a while, on and off....I guess the idea is if you go to the con you can wear your shiny official pin and people will Know you are/were a Nominee? WTF? I didn't even know nominees got fucking pins until this blew up. They don't even SAY "Hugo Award Nominee" on them. They're literally just tiny rockets and look like you could buy them in bulk for like $5 apiece. The pins didn't even start until like the early or mid nineties! Apparently they were first made by some fans?! arldasgflhgljasdflkj kl why am I even looking this shit up....I keep saying to T this whole thing reminds me of the joke about the status wars in academia being so vicious because the stakes are so low. Gahhh.