{"id":12008,"date":"2007-12-14T06:38:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/12\/14\/all-your-words-are-belong-to-us.html"},"modified":"2007-12-14T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:38:11","slug":"all_your_words_are_belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/all_your_words_are_belong.html","title":{"rendered":"All your words are belong to us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will give a bright shiny nickel if anyone can explain to me (a) why <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20071209-fark-com-trying-to-get-trademark-on-not-safe-for-work.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fark&nbsp;is trying to trademark the phrase &#8220;Not Safe for Work&#8221; (NSFW)<\/a>, and (b) what makes them (or their lawyers) think they have a Snowball&#8217;s Chance in Hell<sup><small>TM<\/small><\/sup> of doing so.&nbsp; Unless (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/theweb\/news\/2007\/12\/fark_nsfw\" target=\"_blank\">one can only hope<\/a>) this is some brave attempt to point out the idiocy of trademark applications in the modern age.<\/p>\n<p>The trademark application is <a href=\"http:\/\/tarr.uspto.gov\/servlet\/tarr?regser=serial&amp;entry=77338491\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; For the record, the term is defined there as:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Entertainment Services namely providing a website featuring photographic, audio, video and prose presentations featuring comedic captions regarding current events and online discussions and\/or reviews of web materials of an adult nature; Entertainment services, namely, providing a web site featuring musical performances, musical videos, related film clips, photographs, and other multimedia materials; Entertainment services, namely, providing on-line reviews of photographs and \/or web postings of an adult nature.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/12\/07\/fark-wants-to-trademark-not-safe-for-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trademork.com\/not-safe-for-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderdude.com\/2007\/12\/so_fark_you.html\" target=\"_blank\">BD<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will give a bright shiny nickel if anyone can explain to me (a) why Fark&nbsp;is trying to trademark the phrase &#8220;Not Safe for Work&#8221; (NSFW), and (b) what makes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10568,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/21\/office_work.html","url_meta":{"origin":12008,"position":0},"title":"Office work","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-Dec-06 10:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Working in the (unfinished) office upstairs. 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