{"id":19080,"date":"2021-02-22T20:16:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T01:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/03\/16\/uk-pub-the-hobbit-under-legal-threat-for-name-it-has-used-for-decades\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:29:40","slug":"uk-pub-the-hobbit-under-legal-threat-for-name-it-has-used-for-decades-update-never-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/19080","title":{"rendered":"UK pub, The Hobbit, under legal threat for name it has used for decades; Update: \u201cNever mind\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/YourAnonNews\/status\/180433136642039808\r\n\r\nThey were Hobbit before Hobbit was cool. Techdirt<\/a>:\r\n\r\nThe article isn\u2019t clear if we\u2019re talking about copyrights, trademarks or both, but either way the whole thing is pretty silly. Yes, the pub \u201cfeatures characters from Tolkien\u2019s stories on its signs, has \u2018Frodo\u2019 and \u2018Gandalf\u2019 cocktails on the menu, and the face of Lord of the Rings film star Elijah Wood on its loyalty card.\u201d But is this really harming the rightsholder? I\u2019m sure that SZC is doing all sorts of ridiculously lucrative licensing deals for the upcoming Hobbit movie, and so it\u2019s trying to clear the field of infringers, but all this does is make them look like massive, insensitive bullies. Hell, even Stephen Fry, who\u2019s starring in the movie, has tweeted how ridiculous this is, calling it \u201cpointless, self-defeating bullying.\u201d But, you know, that\u2019s pretty much how Hollywood functions these days.\r\n\r\nWhat? It\u2019s still not cool? Well, it has to be cooler than this sort of lawsuit, doesn\u2019t it? We know the Tolkien estate is strict, but there\u2019s a point at which such threats become counter-productive, isn\u2019t there? What would Professor Tolkien himself thought of it?\r\n\r\nOr maybe they are past caring about such things.\r\n\r\nUpdate:\r\n\r\nI lurve Ian McKellan. LURVE. RT @ianmckellen118<\/a> Lawyers of Mordor retreat: http:\/\/t.co\/6id0DYZd<\/a>\r\n\r\n\u2014 Amy Clark (@TheatreGeekAmy) March 16, 2012<\/a>\r\n\r\n\"Panic<\/a>\r\n

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http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/YourAnonNews\/status\/180433136642039808 They were Hobbit before Hobbit was cool. Techdirt: The article isn\u2019t clear if we\u2019re talking about copyrights, trademarks or both, but either way the whole thing is pretty silly. Yes, the pub \u201cfeatures characters from Tolkien\u2019s stories on its signs, has \u2018Frodo\u2019 and \u2018Gandalf\u2019 cocktails on the menu, and the face of Lord of … Continue reading UK pub, The Hobbit, under legal threat for name it has used for decades; Update: \u201cNever mind\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2331,3672,111,483,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-football","category-christmas","category-diy","category-media","category-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134688,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080\/revisions\/134688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}