Originally published at: Of course, pilates has a copyright troll | Boing Boing
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“… images that he says he owns the copyright to. Some of the pictures, taken from the boxes of materials he acquired in 1992…”
Wait, so he acquired a big box of photographs and he’s just assuming he has the copyrights to all of it, that it was all work-for-hire? That seems like… a dangerous assumption.
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Time for an open source version called “Pirates”.
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The spirit of Cory D has entered the bbs. May he haunt us for eternity.
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One of the upsides of never becoming famous is that your name is unlikely to be associated with no-value-added parasites like Sean Gallagher.
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You do understand that the personal name in that case was effectively stolen from the McDonald brothers through legal manoeuvres by Ray Kroc, right?
Also, the term is “public domain”. And the OJ verdict was reached by a jury, not a judge.
Your infallible Uncle Joe and his original business partner could have avoided all this by creating a business entity specifically tasked with enforcing his intellectual property rights on the trademark and the integrity of his system. The funds could have gone into a trust or into a non-profit foundation. Instead they neglected it, the term became generic, and what scraps of iIP remain fell into the hands of a copyright tr0ll.
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I see they’ve already progressed to “Hot Pilates”.
It sounds like something that would be good with a dab of sour cream.
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“Hot Pilates” just means I’m there.
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