Re: [dvd-discuss] When you though things couldn't get any weirder...

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On 16 Jul 2003 at 15:09, Dan Steinberg wrote:

Date sent:      	Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:09:01 -0400
From:           	Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca>
Subject:        	Re: [dvd-discuss] When you though things couldn't get any 
weirder...
To:             	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
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> Its not 'just' two chords.....its 'THOSE TWO".... :-P

Well then Arnold Schoenberg should be able to trademark the 48(?) twelve tone 
series of serialism rather than merely being a professor at UCS and UCLA and 
not being so misunderstood as his grandchildren=intellectual property parasites 
testified in front of congress during the SonnyBonehead Hearings (OK I realize 
that's not fair. If he really had a bonehead he might have survived his 
encournter with an object of greater intelligence)

> 
> Stephen L Johnson wrote:
> 
> >A friend of mine forwarded me this link:
> >
> >http://www.411mania.com/music/news/article.php?news_id=3586
> >
> >Snippet:
> >-----
> >According to MTV.com, Metallica are suing independant Canadian rockers
> >Unfaith over what they call "unsanctioned usage of two chords
> >[Metallica] have been using since 1982 : E and F."
> >-----
> >
> >According to an MTV.com article link in the article, it's a trademark
> >infringement case. Huh!?!? Since when does the PTO allow a trademark
> >consisting of a sequence of two cords?
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> -- 
> Dan Steinberg
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