Airborne RLTW!
Posted on 05/25/2011 7:04:39 AM PDT by markomalley
That’s bugs bunny.
Bugs Bunny was created by Tex Avery and Chuck Jones for Loonie Tunes and Merry Melodies not Disney.
I’m not sure I’d want to piss off SEAL Team 6...
This story reminds me of an early Batman villain called, ‘The Toyman’.
He copyrighted the alphabet and nobody could use it without his permission.
That’s the way things pretty much already are. The problem here is that there really is no official “SEAL Team Six” but in fact the term has taken a very specific meaning. It’s kind of the inverse effect of ‘Kleenex’ where a specific brand name has become a colloquialism for pretty much any facial tissue. In this case, what started as sort of a nebulous, cold war, false-flag designation, has come to be intimately associated with a very select group, which Disney now wants to trademark.
Reminds of the time that TSR tried to trademark “Nazi” for its Indiana Jones RPG.
Although, in this case, the intentions were a little more deliberate and nefarious.
I see, this makes a bit more sense now. Thanks!
Yes and he and Robert Stanford Tuck, the British ace became close friends after the war. My husband, a retired aviator, and I met Adolph Galland at aviation dinners. When asked what plane he would prefer to fly, he did not endear himself to his leader when he said the Spitfire.
I remember reading that in Galland’s book.
He then explained that he said it just to irritate Goering. As a matter of fact he said he thought the BF-109 was really just as good as the Spitfire.
Except that they are getting a ton of bad press, and some of us will protest to the PTO.
Disney losses even if they get the trademark.
I heard of a fellow a number of years ago who does exactly that with Song of the South (after unsuccessfully trying to buy a legal copy) and made it available to anyone who wants it.
“Do you know who designed the Flying Tigers logo”
Many of the nose art designes were done by Disney artist as well as those working for other studios as well. But that was in a day when the military was not looked at as the enemy, as in today’s Hollywood.
I didn’t say it was a good idea, just explaining why they were doing it that way. They hate it when someone uses “their intellectual properties” like Cinderella or Snow White.
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