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‘Lord Of The Wings’ Food Truck Trademark In New Zealand Defeated By Tolkien Estate (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 2 years ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/interestingshare@lemmy.zip

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Readers here shouldn’t need to be reminded that the Tolkien Estate, through its company Middle-Earth Enterprises, is known to be extremely aggressive with its enforcement of intellectual property over anything remotely to do with The Lord of the Rings. The estate appears to operate under the notion that it has control over words via trademark law that it absolutely does not. And, where it does have those rights, it enforces them in draconian ways.

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[–] skybreaker@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love what Tolkien built, but I hate this part of his legacy. His "estate" should recognize what douchebags they are and just go away. But they won't, because money.

[–] soviettaters@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

This is overreach, but Tolkein's hawkish lawyers prevented a crappy movie version of Lord of the Rings from being made (at least until the rights were given to Amazon).

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I thought Amazon owned the majority of the trademark but I guess it’s really just the rights to make new film/media.