You smiley faces are now trademarked

[Archbob]

Ok, you can no longer use the smilies, they are now trademarked by a Russian Businessman.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2008/12/11/20081211trademark-emoticon1211-ON.html

This is severe pwnage.

 

[Orange Seeds]

Quick! Copyright the period, there is Billions to be made!

 

[Bigfoot3814]

See if I give a damn you stupid Ruskie. ;-)

 

[Cutlass]

Good luck on the enforcement.

 

[Sharwood]

Can I earn money by ratting you filthy criminals in to this guy? Because if so, you're all in deep trouble.

Oh damn...

 

[PeteAtoms]

All your face are belong to us!

 

[scherbchen]

Quick! Copyright the period, there is Billions to be made!

psh! copyright the comma and bleed us Germans dry.

or copyright "lol" and shut down the internet.

 

[JollyRoger]

Can't wait to see an infringement action for abusers of

 

[Alpine Trooper]

Look, I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was: "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!"

 

[scherbchen]

Look, I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was: "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!"

oh dear, that IS missing on this forum, innit? I shall right that wrong!

 

[civ_king]

I now copyright every letter in the English alphabet a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

 

[Sharwood]

I now copyright every letter in the English alphabet a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Pff, I hereby copyright Hindu-Arabic numerals. All of them.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Pff, I hereby copyright Hindu-Arabic numerals. All of them.

I hereby copyright spaces and tabs and UPPER CASE!!!

 

[Mowque]

wouldn't it better to just copyright all forms of communication? written and non-written?

 

[silver 2039]

;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

I'm sure he will be very successful.

 

[Sharwood]

wouldn't it better to just copyright all forms of communication? written and non-written?

Screwthat, I hereby copyright THOUGHT itself. I win.

 

[obliterate]

I copyright the human genome.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Screwthat, I hereby copyright THOUGHT itself. I win.

Good thing that's something most of America doesn't do....or maybe that isn't a good thing...

 

[Dachs]

Pff, I hereby copyright Hindu-Arabic numerals. All of them.

Hilariously, the Arabs themselves do not use "Arabic" numerals. Disabusing our class of this notion took our professor over an hour.

 

[Sharwood]

I copyright the human genome.

I'm pretty sure people already have copyrighted large swathes of it, which is most definitely a bad thing.

Good thing that's something most of America doesn't do....or maybe that isn't a good thing...

You're right, it's seriously cutting into my profit margin. Hell, I don't think very many people on Earth do a lot of thinking, period.