Re: overhaul?
"Aso, how could one have trademark or copyright on "Winter is Coming" beggars belief."
It's not a problem unique to the USA. The UK Olympic(TM) Committee trademarked lots of words related to The Olympics(TM) and did a heavy handed clamp down on any use of "their" trademarks. Hence poets were stopped from using the words "Olympic(TM)" or "gold(TM)" in their works and the poor owner of the Olympic café was told to take down his sign.
It seems insanity that the trade mark process permits organisations to trademark words and phrases in common usage.
Presumably this Wikipedia page infringes copyright as does this movie. Those naughty, naughty Americans infringed copyright when they launched a cyber attack on Iran and should be subject to their own DMCA slapdown.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
