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	Question iczer6 2004-05-29 03:08 am UTC (link)
	Who or what is a Kroenen? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Question faultypremise 2004-05-29 03:16 am UTC (link)
	Dr. Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, from the Hellboy comments. It's a fan community based on him. Or was. Until this asshat came in and claimed he has said name copyrighted. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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telophase
2004-05-29 03:21 am UTC (link)

*coughbullshitcough*

You cannot copyright a name. You can trademark a name, but you cannot copyright it, and the asshat doesn't have it trademarked because he would have posted that. The community owner is showing graciousness in changing the name without a fuss, but s/he does not have to.

*telophase resists the temptation to go in and flame the asshat to a nice even crispness*

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	Re: Question faultypremise 2004-05-29 03:22 am UTC (link)
	COMICS, not comments. Guh. Ok, time to abandon the keyboard for a bit. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	criticalcricket 2004-05-29 03:13 am UTC (link)
	"OMG! Like! I so thought of that character derived name before you did and I am teh ONLY one who can use it and u guys so suck because I thought of it first and can prove it!!!111!" That's quite amusing and yet so terribly lame. Now let us all point and laugh. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	seventy_three 2004-05-29 03:21 am UTC (link)
	But look, the one guy just totally rolled over. "Yes sir, Mr. Kronenite, sir, here's your name, sir, please don't call your internet lawyer, sir." licklick, snufflesnuffle Geez. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	criticalcricket 2004-05-29 03:24 am UTC (link)
	Looks like some people just don't like the wank as much as we do. I would lay the smackdown while this person would rather back down. Hey, different strokes for different folks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Oh for crissake.
(Anonymous)
2004-05-29 03:52 am UTC (link)

I cannot BELIEVE the wussness that flows from that guy. For starters, s/he is a moderator--where the hells does he (fine, I'll use he) get off whining about how he doesn't want drama? "Oh, I don't want DRAMA. Drama would hurt me and my friends list and give me leprosy and rape my cat and pee in my Wheaties."

I especially like the line "I have found that people that stupid tend to drone on and on about what they believe to be them being in the Right, and no amount of logic and/or mocking will change their mind."

Because apparently, no amount of people telling this guy he's a cringing little polyp will change HIS mind either.

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	khym_chanur 2004-05-29 04:07 am UTC (link)
	Guh! Why are there so many people who don't know the difference between copyrights and trademarks? (Reply to this)(Thread)

telophase
2004-05-29 08:00 am UTC (link)

For the same reason that there are so many people who think (a) that you still have to register a copyright for it to be activated, (b) that mailing yourself a copy of your work to supply a dated postmark will prove anything in court (c) that if they submit their work to a publisher that the publisher will steal their ideas unless they threaten them in the cover letter, and (d) that since they're not making any money from something, copyright doesn't apply to them. Basically, people get their legal advice from each other instead of people who actually know the law, and therefore it's a giant game of Telephone where what comes out at the end of the string of transmission is completely garbled from what went in at the beginning.

And, oh yeah, (e) for the same reason that professors think their status as educators means that anything they do involving images is therefore educational use and they don't have to get permission to copy slides, i.e., they're prima donnas who think that the rules don't apply to them. [

telophase had to bash a few heads on that one at her last job.]

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	khym_chanur 2004-05-29 09:50 am UTC (link)
	Ooooh, what was your last job? Sound either fun or hair-pullingly frustrating (or both). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

telophase
2004-05-29 10:02 am UTC (link)

I was the slide curator for the College of Architecture at Texas A&M. :) (I think my name may still be on their website, which has obviously not been updated in the two years since I left for grad school.) I managed the collection of art history and architecture slides. It was fun (excpet for the co-worker from HELL that last three years) and the occasional academic prima donna.

Oh, and excpet for the grad students who assumed that staff = non-degreed = stupid, and therefore paid me no attention when I told them they were doing everything wrong. I had one student working for a professor who literally would not believe me when I said that the slides of a building in Venice labeled "Doge's Palace" and "Duke's Palace" were of the same building UNTIL I told him I had a master's degree in anthropology and museum studies. DESPITE me telling him that I took Italian as an undergrad. Apparently in his brain, an undergrad degree with three years of Italian meant I was not to be trusted with the translation of "Doge" but a masters degree in anthropology and museum studies with no reference to Italian whatsoever meant I could translate Italian with ease. Aaaaaaaaaargh!

And then the EEEEEVIL COWORKER who was all pissed off that the website listed out our degrees, because she said that they shouldn't matter. Well, yeah, duh, they don't necessarily mean anything than you passed a standard rite of passage, BUT she's working for an organization that DEPENDS on producing people with degrees and she's surprised that they consider them important? Give me a break!

Rant over. Getting to do research on the art and architecture to catalog the slides was fun, and most of the people were nice most of the time.

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	zozma 2004-05-29 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	A most righteous rant! Huzzah! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ningengirai 2004-05-30 04:50 am UTC (link)
	I must now admit my utter cluelessness in regards to recent anime series and ask the inevitable... That character in your icon? Who is he? I've seen him around a couple of times, mostly in icons, but I never figured out which anime he comes from. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	telophase 2004-05-30 04:57 am UTC (link)
	Meet Gaara of the Desert, a lovely little psycho from Naruto</a>. He dislikes you, but seeing as how he dislikes everyone in the entire world, this is not much of a surprise. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	telophase 2004-05-30 04:58 am UTC (link)
	And one day I will learn to close my HTML tags properly. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snorfle hephaestoschick 2004-05-29 04:43 am UTC (link)
	I was wondering if anyone was gonna post that. I saw it on the hellboy LJ lists, and snickered about it. The best part is that, in the movie, he HAS NO LINES and is FILLED WITH SAND. He's quite literally an evil ninja-nazi sockpuppet. ::snickers:: (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: I like ENT... sewingmyfish 2004-05-29 04:51 am UTC (link)
	OMG! Wickedicon love (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: snorfle marginalsanity 2004-05-29 06:23 am UTC (link)
	WICKED. snog (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: snorfle hephaestoschick 2004-05-29 07:46 am UTC (link)
	Wow...didn't realize I'd get so much Wicked-squee. Um, more Wicked icons here if you'd like. And some other random stuff. And actually, I'd say he's in that weird land of sockpuppet-beanie that Live Action Sailor Moon's Luna is in. As for the crap of the obvious placation of dumbass by MOD... Head. Desk. Beatings with the packing-tube-of-BUH. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: snorfle cleolinda 2004-05-29 08:19 am UTC (link)
	Heeee, the Animated Van Helsing Prequel icons are awesome. I want to see the prequel so bad, considering how much I loved that terrible, terrible movie in the theater. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: snorfle marginalsanity 2004-05-29 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	Ever since I read Wicked, and saw it in New York... I have been in love. LOVE. ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: snorfle restlesshands 2004-05-29 07:28 am UTC (link)
	More like an evil ninja-nazi beanie baby, I think... ...Is it bad that I thought he was a damned sexy evil ninja nazi beanie baby until I found out he had no lips and no eyelids? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	birdyexmachina 2004-05-29 07:44 am UTC (link)
	...I dunno. Is it bad I kinda thought so as well even after I found out? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	restlesshands 2004-05-29 07:51 am UTC (link)
	snerk Nah. He MOVES sexy, even if he doesn't look sexy at times. So, through the powers of selective memory, we'll just ignore the fact that we found out he's got no lips or eyelids and looks kinda creepy, really. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: birdyexmachina 2004-05-29 07:56 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, that works for me. grin I wish I could deflect bullets with swords, man. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	restlesshands 2004-05-29 08:21 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, seriously! And I wish I were Driven by the Power of Sand(tm). Because, uh, that's cool. Or something. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cough GIP birdyexmachina 2004-05-29 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	It's a good advertising pitch. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	*Re: cough* GIP restlesshands** 2004-05-29 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	XD Oh, splendid! Hehe - it IS a good advertising pitch! Who wouldn't want an evil ninja-nazi beanie baby that's driven by the power of sand(tm)? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	I'm going to hell for this... iczer6 2004-05-29 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	...Is it bad that I thought he was a damned sexy evil ninja nazi beanie baby until I found out he had no lips and no eyelids? OMG! KroenenxMason Verger OTP! Theirloveissohorriblydisfigured! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I'm going to hell for this... restlesshands 2004-05-30 12:12 am UTC (link)
	Ah, see, that right there just warms my heart. Proof that slash fangirls aren't all about the looks. cough Hehehe...anyway. Oh, on a random note - BotI icons = love! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	morgyne 2004-05-29 04:54 am UTC (link)
	I dribbled, but didn't fully splooge. I couldn't help myself sniff. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	tekenduis 2004-05-29 05:36 am UTC (link)
	They make pills for that. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	alina_kalime 2004-05-29 05:37 am UTC (link)
	Am I reading this incorrectly, or are they actually giving in to the so-called "copyright owner"? boggle Personally, I find that a little silly (just as silly as the plagiarism claim) but I guess it were easier to just make a new group...x_x (Reply to this)(Thread)

	chaimonkey 2004-05-29 07:02 am UTC (link)
	Easy is for teh weak! Stand and fight! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gjeanz 2004-05-29 07:18 am UTC (link)
	Your icon is fucking cute. Trinity! squee! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2004-05-29 08:28 am UTC (link)
	Actually, I think it would be MUCH easier to dash off a quick "Fuck Off Thx" post and ban the offending arsewad from posting in the comm. LiveJournal makes that very, very simple. SO simple, in fact, that I can't think of a damn reason why it would be less trouble than moving and entire comm. I mean, giving in to that crap defies ALL reason. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snarkbunny 2004-05-29 05:48 am UTC (link)
	I'm not sure which makes me sigh and shake my head sadly for the state of the internet more - the guy who's claiming that he has ownership of a name derived from someone else's name, or the one who's willing to just give in to his ridiculous assertion. (Reply to this)

	marginalsanity 2004-05-29 06:23 am UTC (link)
	Oh my God. Who is more stupid - the copyright guy, or the mod actually GIVING in without so much as a decent reply? bashes head against things (Reply to this)(Thread)

	chaimonkey 2004-05-29 07:00 am UTC (link)
	The mod loses by 5 IQ points. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seventy_three 2004-05-29 07:05 am UTC (link)
	Someone should go to that community and demand, I dunno, money or sex or something. Just to see if the mod is all, "Well...um...okay. I don't want any trouble." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: chaimonkey 2004-05-29 07:35 am UTC (link)
	Hehe, oh yes. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sarajayechan 2004-05-29 06:33 am UTC (link)
	...Dude, that's just really fucked up right there. (Reply to this)

	chaimonkey 2004-05-29 07:00 am UTC (link)
	I like this ghetto_zombie character. Good stuff. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2004-05-31 09:00 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, this person seems to be able to talk sense into idiots. You'll notice that mr. wanker decided to see the light after a few logical posts that are hard (if not impossible) to argue with. chuckle Maybe there's hope for the world yet. ~Fangboy (The Anon Who Isn't) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cleolinda 2004-05-29 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	Dude, somebody stop me from going over there and pretending to be Mike Mignola's internet lawyer. (Reply to this)

	thespacecat 2004-05-30 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	I love your ava, btw. (Reply to this)