Monday, March 20, 2006

Marvel Comics: stealing our language


Marvel Comics is continuing in its bid to steal the word "super-hero" from the public domain and put it in a lock-box to which it will control the key. Marvel and DC comics jointly filed a trademark on the word "super-hero." They use this mark to legally harass indie comic companies that make competing comic books.

2 comments:

Pete said...

This is the kind of thing that is so preposterous, that you'd think it wouldn't make it through the court systems, but does.
I'll never understand the thinking of the grown-ups that run everything.

Pete said...

*wincing at my mutilation of the english language*