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Yakk · 11-01-2006, 08:58 AM

It more damages the image of all garbage disposals than the particular brand.

"I don't want a garbage disposal, they are dangerous, you can get your hand chopped up in them" -- if garbage disposals are signficantly safer than shown in Heros...

On the other hand, cars don't explode like they do in action movies. Bullets, when you get shot, tend to cause more damage. Lots of bits of "reality" are bent during movies.

Does and should trademark owners be able to refuse a show the right to show their trademark'd goods on a movie or show? Cars drive, garbage disposals exist in houses -- filming a trademark in an area where the trademark would exist in a typical life does not seem like something the trademark owner should have the right of refusal over.

I say that if you have a movie in which your hero drives up to an Exxon station, then uses the gas pump and a lighter to blow it up, Exxon should have no say in the matter.

11-01-2006, 08:58 AM	#8 (permalink)
Yakk Wehret Den Anfängen! Location: Ontario, Canada	It more damages the image of all garbage disposals than the particular brand. "I don't want a garbage disposal, they are dangerous, you can get your hand chopped up in them" -- if garbage disposals are signficantly safer than shown in Heros... On the other hand, cars don't explode like they do in action movies. Bullets, when you get shot, tend to cause more damage. Lots of bits of "reality" are bent during movies. Does and should trademark owners be able to refuse a show the right to show their trademark'd goods on a movie or show? Cars drive, garbage disposals exist in houses -- filming a trademark in an area where the trademark would exist in a typical life does not seem like something the trademark owner should have the right of refusal over. I say that if you have a movie in which your hero drives up to an Exxon station, then uses the gas pump and a lighter to blow it up, Exxon should have no say in the matter. __________________ Last edited by JHVH : 10-29-4004 BC at 09:00 PM. Reason: Time for a rest.