I'm Rob Blatt. For the most part I wrote about my dogs, music and technology. I swear quite a bit, so this blog isn't for people who can't handle that. I encourage you to subscribe to the RSS feed. All the random images to the right are courtesy of my amazing wife.
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Check that out! I was browsing around the Google Store and came across this shirt. Mostly, the Google Store looks liek a Cafe Press shop; there’s just too many items with the simple Google logo on it to be exciting in anyway. Based on everything else in the store, this shirt shines.
I think I just might order me one of them for $15.
So I was reading a link on Waxy Links about how Disney filed a very very long list of trademarks for Jack Sparrow (link) and the list doesn’t actually end, it just keeps going and going.
I’ve learned they’ve registered the trademark for Johnny Depp’s pirate character, Jack Sparrow, in a tsunami of categories, including bikinis and bolo ties and badminton sets, licorice and lemonade and leg warmers, bagels and bowling balls and BBQ mits!
You should read the list, it’s truely absurd, but I doubt that Disney is going to be making bolo ties or cloth doilies with Johnny Depp’s image on it. The more I thought about it the more it makes sense in my mind for Disney to register as many of these trademarks as they can, or else SOMEONE will release “JACK SPARROW AFTER SEX WIPES” or some equally absurd product cashing in on Disney’s success with the movie.
It is indeed going overboard to take the time to register all of these items, but unfortunately it’s the only weapon Disney has against bootleg merchandise that doesn’t really tie in to the the movie. It’s their property to make money on if they desire.
Of course that being said, I probably will never see any of these pirate movies. I do enjoy the ride though.
Gary Shapiro of the Consumer electronics Association is my new hero.
I’m super psyched about it. Now if I could only get us onto Pandora…
