It’s good to be the king, right Mike?
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Well, his people usually contact my people first and then set up the meeting.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Glad I had not picked up my second cup of coffee before you got that one in!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
You go, Scott. Ain't this a wonderful country?
Wow. Just amazing.
What ever fun there was in crafting the response, it must have been a pain in the tail piece to have respond to something like this at all. Well it provides some variety and entertainment in the workday, I suppose, but it would sure ruin my day. There are enough regular, not unexpected, and even planned and often stupidly self created hassles in my life. Something like this landing in my lap would not be fun for me.
I suppose its a sign that the Cafe is significant in the world that it becomes a target for this kind of thing. I am glad we have Scott keeping his powder dry and swords sharp.
Marking MC off my list of websites to potentially shake down...
Chris Cravens
Girouard A5
Montana Flatiron A-Jr.
Passernig Mandola
Leo Posch D-18
-- Don
"Music: A minor auditory irritation occasionally characterized as pleasant."
"It is a lot more fun to make music than it is to argue about it."
2002 Gibson F-9
2016 MK LFSTB
1975 Suzuki taterbug (plus many other noisemakers)
[About how I tune my mandolins]
[Our recent arrival]
Next, he'll sue the Frito Bandito
I was expecting a lawsuit from a disgruntled spouse for enabling our addiction, erhh,... I mean habit.
2010 Heiden A5, 2020 Pomeroy oval A, 2013 Kentucky KM1000 F5, 2012 Girouard A Mandola w ff holes, 2001 Old Wave A oval octave
http://HillbillyChamberMusic.bandcamp.com
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@hillbillychambermusic
Sure, but can he play the Bandola Expandido? Oops, I said it again.....is that anything like the Frito Bandito?Besides being a blood sucking attorney, he plays THE BANJO.
Living’ in the Mitten
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
Tom Waits already took care of that. https://www.americanbar.org/content/...thcheckdam.pdf
The worst part about this is that even though Tom Waits won he probably ended up with less than if he had actually done the commercial. It's amazing what people are willing to steal. Your likeness, your voice, your words.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
So who owns the rights to the Schmergle Devistator?
And what about the Schmergel Devistater?
Picturing: some guy in his garage, who's created (he thinks) this [instrument which shall not be named], and even registered the name (scraps of paper lying around with rejected possible names like "La Superbandola"), and he figures he'll put [that instrument] into production & be on easy street, and he goes to the internet one day to see if there's any buzz about [it] yet because he did tell the neighbors about it and maybe they twittered it on facebook or something, and BANG he sees somebody else is using "his" name!!!, & he panics & finds a form letter online & hurriedly fills it in immediately ...
Or it could be something entirely different.
wow, crazy stuff, always makes me wonder what some people will do.
Thanks
I don't think there's a problem here, since farmerj wisely misspelled everything
benny
And I was toying with changing my username to Bandola Expandido. Shoot!
Have to do a search to see if Mandola Expanditoski is still available...
Despite the high cost of living, it still remains popular...
Once upon a time, when the world was saner and there was no internet, people were free to think and talk freely.
Then came the internet and thoughts and conversations moved online in the form of the printed word.
US copyright law does not allow you to register a word or term - that is the purview of trademark law. Back in the day trademarks were only assigned if they were descriptive of what the company/product does, not generic terms. Plus the trademark was only issued for the visual representation of the term, not the term itself.
In the '90's some US states started issuing "wordmarks" causing some bright light (with a team of lawyers) to decide that "words" and "thoughts" were now a commodity that could be commercialized and protected by the various laws backed by teams of greedy lawyers.
As more and more of the world moves into the digital domain, the race to "own" anything and everything that can be held as "exclusive" for the purpose of making money has become the new gold-rush. It is a huge industry that is growing in leaps and bounds.
Googles parent company is called "Alphabet," meaning a for-profit company owns the exclusive rights to "alphabet." Maybe not the alphabet at this moment, but through various legal machinations that could very well be in the mail.
Think about that for a moment.
If I'm not mistaken, the Copyright Act does not allow copyright protection for names and short phrases. Only trademark does that.
It's Devastator, dude.
I believe that Shmergel Mandolins Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of -- wait, can't tell you that; international intrigue is involved, it's too dangerous.
Clever of you to include alternate spellings, but the agents of [name redacted] can see right through that.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
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