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(...) opps, i'm not surprised (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Never underestimate the power one has by irritating a corporation. But I'm not sure what legal rights (definitely not sure re: UK law) he may have in changing his name thusly. "Legoland Windsor" is most likely a trade name, and protected by (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Scott: (...) Perhaps as a fitting punishment the Court should allow TLC to pick the guy's new name. (...) Come on! If that were all it takes to get thrown in jail, the streets would be empty! Dave! (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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To All, (...) What a joke. This was an obvious attempt to try to grate a "enormously rich and powerful organization", or to get money out of them. People like this need to do something more productive than to irritate corporations in this fashion. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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(...) I vote for Fabluand Paridisa. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry but I just have to throw my 2 cents in here. IMHO this is TLC's own darn fault. It shows their incompitance when it comes to the internet. They should have registered www.legolandwindsor.com when they named it Legoland Windsor. Granted (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) *sigh* I wouldn't normall respond to such an obvious troll this early in the day, but is there any chance I can convince you to not CC my e-mail when you respond to my posts on LUGNET? Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Or perhaps simply Timmy. Dave! (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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Jeremy, (...) rich (...) this (...) this (...) Indeed, but I can't imagine why anyone do this to anybody. Doesn't TLC have enough problems without this as well? It's just another example of people wasting other peoples time, money, and resources, (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Agreed. In this particular case, it seems pretty logical that "legolandwindsor" is probably associated with the Lego theme park with a similar name. However, things get a lot more cloudy when it's sting.com (which the pop star recently tried (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmm. Lego: As punishment, we choose your name to be "Jar Jar". Lucasfilm: Lego, would you care to explain why naming him after a character of ours that you have a license to is a punishment? Lego: Well, everyone hates Jar Jar. Lucasfilm: I (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I wonder though; how can they be expected to police all misuse of their name in a case like this? If they copyright legolandwindsor.com, what's to prevent some knucklehead from using "legoland-windsor.com" or "legoland_windsor.com" or even (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) At least in that case Lucasfilm would have to recognize that Jar Jar is a pretty god-awful name (and, I would submit, possibly the worst character in all of science fiction). Dave! (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) For a human, yeah. (...) I don't know about that, but I doubt Lucasfilm would be comfortable with a corporate partner taking that position in any kind of official way. eric (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Quick answer... It can't. Long answer. Companies should use some common sense and be proactive about registering domains. You won't stop everyone by any means but a company needs to take the obvious and protect that. www.legolandwindsor.com is (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I know you were posting for fun. Of course, I also think the guy changed his name and is irritating TLC for fun. In both cases, a company's trademark is put to ridicule, just a bit. Neither one is lastingly harmful (especially since until he (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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(...) And to human ears, too. We've all heard the semi-apocryphal story that George let his kid name some characters when George's strained creative juices had run sour. Whatever the excuse, it's still a dumb name. I'm not talking about inherent (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And just for the record, I seem to remember that Luke Skywalker's name in Lucas' first draft was "Johnny Starkiller" (I might have that wrong) DaveE (fut starwars) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) the (...) you (...) My apologies, I usually delete any people's e-mail, that was my fault. I do not normally send anybody's e-mail unless I want to respond personally. Scott S. -- (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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Eric, (...) have (...) better. (...) darn (...) should (...) Windsor. (...) matter (...) all (...) have (...) HOTMAIL (...) good (...) a (...) long (...) Legoland (...) I don't really have any disagreements with TLC's own incompetence in this (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) guy's (...) Jar Jar? Scott S. -- Soon to be Black & Veatch Employee: (URL) Page -> (URL) LEGO Parts at Great Prices? Visit The Sanburn Systems Company! (URL) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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To All, Ugh. OK, I just want to say this, and I won't saything else, I posted this to off.topic.debate as well, for I think we are drifting again into this. I am in my, why do people do this mode, and this guy is a prime example. Shame on TLC for (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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(...) the (...) character of (...) lawyers, (...) Sorry, I didn't cross post it to fun, just making a joke, along the lines of Timmy (both for of their popularity here) . I know the legal ramifications and consequences, that what I was referring to (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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(...) Er, I've been under the impression that he began letting his kids write the scripts when his creative juices went sour. No wait, that must be apocrypha...Jedi came out before the wee progidies were born. (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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Eric, (...) of (...) ramifications (...) Based on your post, no. I don't think you did. (...) fun. Legal issues, changing your name, and claiming URL's and saying Jar Jar in a jest are two different things. IMHO (...) No. No, it is a lot different. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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(...) True. I know one company that has registered thirty to forty-odd other urls, none of them in use, just to make sure that this sort of thing doesn't happen to them. Note that these include adding derogatory suffixes to their name as well. I (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) By having an ever vigilant, and understanding AFOL community? (...) Point-taken, but there is an issue of possible "abuse" of trademarks here. If a site registered as (URL) and only sold clone bricks that would in IMHO be illegal. ( misleadig (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yup one of the most common suffixes (and most tame) that companies tend to register is "sucks". It also just so happens that this LEGO + this suffix is still available which doesn't supprise me but I also won't be supprised if someone (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Right. That's both illegal and smarmy. Just registering the domain with the hope of selling it to Lego also under the new law illegal and definitely smarmy (although having that be illegal sort of troubles me -- just because it's not nice, or (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Just for the record, they didn't. Rather, the domain legopolis.com was given up voluntarily after a general FTF meeting with two Lego attorneys in October, 1997, in which they explained that they felt that the domain name diluted the LEGO (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote: [a bunch of stuff which I'd snipped] Thanks for explaining more clearly. The whole thing was slightly before my lego on-line time, so it's a bit hazy to me. Sorry. (...) And that's actually the part that was (...) (24 years ago, 2-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Jar Jar Binks the minifgure is not bad. Tan minifig parts are useful. -- Andrew, Agent 0007 (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oh, really... >;-) How is the Gungan/Jar-Jar *head* useful? How useful is having *dozens* of Gungan heads? Franklin (PS: I *do* use the Jar-Jar *torso* for certain critters I make for CastleWorld or Pirates, FWIW...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, everything *BELOW* the neck anyways :^) (...) They're great for that pothole in the driveway! :^) (...) Being a Castlehead when I first saw the SW minifigs I thought, "cool. peasants!" When I first showed my brother the first landspeeder (...) (24 years ago, 9-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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