I hope the court
tells then to fark off.
Fark attempts to trademark NSFW
Fark.com has filed an application to trademark "Not Safe For Work", offering the delicious possibility of mass litigation against roughly half of net content providers including, of course, El Reg (link NSFW, natch). The audacious move was spotted by Trademork, which not unreasonably points out that it "might be a little …
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Tuesday 11th December 2007 09:38 GMT Dave Bell
Trademarks are weird.
I've seen some strange trademark claims come out of the USA. But the important thing to remember is that they can be very specific, which is how Orange was able to trademark a colour.
And I remember the game company story. It was a set of fold-up cardboard tokens, intended to represent the characters, for a game based on the first Indiana Jones move. So the word "Nazi" was a part of the whole, including trademarked character design.
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Tuesday 11th December 2007 14:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
"not unreasonably"
@Adam, Graham Dawson
The correct term is "litotes"
"ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g. I shan’t be sorry for I shall be glad)."
[from http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/litotes?view=uk]
It's a bit different from the classic double negative. Which incidentally is, and always has been, proper natural English, despite what a handful of 18th century logicians thought say about it. And there ain't nobody who can tell me nothing different.
Eponymous Blowhard.
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