  baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
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Sterling Heights, MI | Seriously.... Comcast should hire Mothra to fight in court over this | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Seriously.... History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men....
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| | | | Re: Seriously.... Go, go Godzilla... | |
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| | | | | Re: Seriously.... Does this mean the people behind Gamera will go after Comcast for the Slowskys too?
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| | |  RARPSL
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Suffern, NY | Also Go, Go, GOJIRA (which is his actual name). He as only renamed Godzilla for the US Audience in 1956 when the US released the 1954 Japanese movie with added Raymond Burr Footage and an English Dubbed Soundtrack. If you saw the 1999 attempt to make a Godzilla Movie, even THEY acknowledged that his name is Gojira (which was morphed to "Godzilla" by a tongue-tied News Reporter who mispronounced the name). | |
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| | | I'm waiting for SimCity to sue Comcast for ripping off their game in their adverts. | |
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Glendale, CA | haha DIE GODZILLA! Fire the lasers!! This made me laugh. Great way to start the day at work.
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Ottawa, IL | Bit torrent So does this make them like bit torrent users, stealing copy written works and all. | |
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|  cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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| Re: Bit torrent said by Toguro:So does this make them like bit torrent users, stealing copy written works and all. It's might be trademark infringement, not stealing copy written work.
And piracy infringes on copyrights, not stealing (theft). Well, unless you are actually taking physical property (DVD, CD, book, etc) then it's stealing/theft, not copyright infringement. | |
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| | | | Re: Bit torrent said by cdru:And piracy infringes on copyrights, not stealing (theft). Well, unless you are actually taking physical property (DVD, CD, book, etc) then it's stealing/theft, not copyright infringement. Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe. | |
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 BSD24Tier 4Premium
join:2008-04-30
Middleboro, MA | Toho - money hungy Wow, another company wants to sue to make money off of a cartoon. Next they will start asking for any person that draws a picture of what might be considered godzilla to pay a million dollar fine... Toho needs to bug off!
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| Re: Toho - money hungy Read your own reports better, Louisville was sent Cease And Desist letters from Dr. Seuss Enterprises for trying to hold a "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" themed Winter Celebration.
»reporter.blogs.com/thresq/2008/1···ers.html
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|  ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
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| said by BSD24:Wow, another company wants to sue to make money off of a cartoon. Next they will start asking for any person that draws a picture of what might be considered godzilla to pay a million dollar fine... Toho needs to bug off! Rest assured that if someone created something that looked like Comcast Town or whatever it was called the roles would be reversed.
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| | | The difference is that comcast used it for commercial purposes, a kid drawing godzilla can do whatever the hell they want (except try to sell it and make money off it).
Companies who own legitimate trademarks, and lets face it, Godzilla is a legit trademark, have to pursue offenders otherwise they can lose the trademark. | |
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| | | said by BSD24:Wow, another company wants to sue to make money off of a cartoon. Try using Mickey Mouse in an ad without Disney's permission. See how fast your head is taken off by a platoon of lawyers. | |
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|  GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
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| Re: Godzilla is coming. And he is pissed! said by KrK:Godzilla is coming. And he is pissed! You better take that down before Toho takes DSLR!
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| | GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
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kudos:8 | Re: Godzilla is coming. And he is pissed! The sea monster clearly has ear holes where-as Godzirra doesn't. | |
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| |  pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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| | | said by KrK:Godzilla is coming. And he is pissed! Godzilla has awfully fat thighs. | |
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Philadelphia, PA | Godzilla palette Godzilla is grey, not green. Screw off, Toho(moar liek ToHOMO amirite?). | |
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| DesdinovaPremium
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Gaithersburg, MD | Re: Godzilla palette So yer sayin' we can put the Colorblind Defense up there with the Twinkie Defense!?  | |
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| | | | Re: Godzilla palette said by Desdinova:So yer sayin' we can put the Colorblind Defense up there with the Twinkie Defense!? No, that would completely lose. You must use the Chewbacca defense | |
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|  ahulettLife Without WallsPremium,VIP
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This is a clear copy of Godzilla. It has the dual spins, short arms. It has thick legs and same exact face. | |
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| | King kong is in the open why not use that or do they want to King kong is in the open why not use that or do they want to not copy direct. | |
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 pokesphIt Is Almost FastPremium
join:2001-06-25
Sacramento, CA
kudos:1 | Godzilla? Doesn't look much like Godzilla to me.. | |
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| |  If only someone had checked with their legal dept first..
Hope Toho gets everything they get coming to them...
What it really boils down to...this whole thing could very easily have been completely avoided if someone in comcast's advertising dept, had spoken with there internal legal dept. to see if it was ok to use the 'likeness' of a big, green lizard, that even remotely resembles Godzilla.
of course I remember watching the movies up north[Philly, pa] on channel 29 -- creature double feature on saturday afternoon anyone? bad-dubbing included!! hehe...
I suspect the advertising person, probably never saw godzilla...and therefore failed to check with the legal dept before letting this go out on air...
Konichi-wa Godzilla-san!!
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1 edit |  They didn't see this coming
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|  GooberPremium
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1 edit | Re: They didn't see this coming It's not parody and Comcast will lose.
I would have lost my marbles if one of our marketing guys came to me and told me what they had done.
Edit: I noticed though that the Comcast green lizard isn't shown spewing fire. Still, I personally feel that it's problematic and I would have kaboshed this. But, marketing does what it wants many times without asking the lawyers. It's usually only when they get slapped do they come running to us. | |
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|  GKIPremium
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Tacoma, WA | Isn't the 'Transformer' like character shooting the lasers? | |
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 panth1The Coyote
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Boca Raton, FL | What does Comcast care... All their subscribers will pick up the tab if there is a judgement against them. | |
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Puyallup, WA
kudos:1 | The Jingle I bet freecreditreport.com sues them next ... cause that jingle sounds just like one of their lame commercials
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| | Why isn't this article titled "Comcast Pirates Godzilla" Comcast is always going on about how bit torrent users are pirates who need to be capped or controlled because they are taking copyright material.
If Comcast took the copyrighted Godzilla from Toho, that means Comcast is a pirate too.
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Wrong trademarked character!
They should have used Porky Pig!