Greed will get them in the end. When companies do things like this it just leaves a bad taste in the mouth of fans and non-fans alike. NBC would be more respected if they just left the fans alone, I mean seriously, this does them no harm and in my view should be considered as part of the culture not infringement, this is part of the social sphere of culture – a t-shirt, oh bother. If they stopped chasing fans, not that I am one (apologies) but if I were, their decision to be so hawkish on fun that fans have is really harmful to their brand.
Starship Troopers, the novel by Robert Heinlein, detailed the training and concept behind automated armor for use on the battlefield in 1959. Marvel debuted the superhero Ironman in 1963. Heinlein declined to sue. Those days are gone.
It is sadly shortsighted of NBC-Universal to defend their minutiae so zealously. Your tee is a crowd-source hint — people still love Back to the Future. Where's the next film? What are they waiting for, the next open slot in JJ Abrams schedule?
I think you're the only owner of rights to that image. They own rights to their image. Designs are protected by patents or trademarks, not by copyright, right?
Rename it to DaveCAD capacitor. I'd buy it. The legal people just Google for wording matches of phrases they deem proprietary. So if the wrods don't match… muhaha.
I think this is the first time I've seen any calculus on the EEVblog, and it has Dave insulting lawyers, quoting old movie lines and telling nbc to kiss his "arse". I love this guy.
Besides, this 'flux capacitor' is not a device that really exists or has any commercial potential.So this must be about NBC wanting to retain the sole capacity to market such t-shirts, themselves.
Now that you have the Flux Capacitor so imprinted in your brain, NBC have the power to decide upon what you can and cannot do. They hooked you up on their drug and now they can violate you as they see fit. You are NBC's bitch forever.
You shouldn't have liked the movie that much. What to do now? Boycott NBC Universal and advocate for copyright law liberalization. That's pretty much all you can do.
Willingly or not, most of us live with a copyright system that gives a monopoly for up to ~200 years. That is the main problem. Copyright terms should be shortened to the much more reasonable 20 years or so, as it was originally.
If you see something that you like, tell everybody how much you like it and thus help promoting it for free, you don't even get the right to sell t-shirts with a small part of it long after it stopped being a source of income for the copyright owners.
It should include "complete and utter" after the "It's" or was that only in "It's complete and utter garbage"? That would be another idea for a shirt. 🙂
Oh, but of course you are infringing their copyright. Who would be so stupid to buy the dvd after they've already seen (at least one possible concept of) a drawing of a flux capacitor on the shirt?
I bet you've cost them at least several tens of billions of lost profits in that way.
I'm getting a copyright on breathing, from now on nobody can breath like me without paying me a royalty or asking for permission first! So everyone hold your breath or else! This is serious!
As someone mentioned: The problem is making profit with something they guessed out… If you would live in Germany they would f*** u up completely and you would have to pay a serious amount of money to them. Thats possible here…
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Greed will get them in the end. When companies do things like this it just leaves a bad taste in the mouth of fans and non-fans alike. NBC would be more respected if they just left the fans alone, I mean seriously, this does them no harm and in my view should be considered as part of the culture not infringement, this is part of the social sphere of culture – a t-shirt, oh bother. If they stopped chasing fans, not that I am one (apologies) but if I were, their decision to be so hawkish on fun that fans have is really harmful to their brand.
@NBC let fans have fun, this is so harmless.
Dat VEST
one of the most annoying things to hear from a non engineer to an electronic engineer is "ohhh hahah you mean the flux capacitor?"
Hahahahahahahaha! I only have this to say, "I agree!"
Dave… that sign… it read "kick me"… did someone swap your "kiss my arse" sign???
Starship Troopers, the novel by Robert Heinlein, detailed the training and concept behind automated armor for use on the battlefield in 1959. Marvel debuted the superhero Ironman in 1963. Heinlein declined to sue. Those days are gone.
It is sadly shortsighted of NBC-Universal to defend their minutiae so zealously. Your tee is a crowd-source hint — people still love Back to the Future. Where's the next film? What are they waiting for, the next open slot in JJ Abrams schedule?
Moving on to EEV# 72.
Dave you got some guns there.
I think you're the only owner of rights to that image. They own rights to their image. Designs are protected by patents or trademarks, not by copyright, right?
why didnt that happen now?
Rename it to DaveCAD capacitor. I'd buy it.
The legal people just Google for wording matches of phrases they deem proprietary. So if the wrods don't match…
muhaha.
I think this is the first time I've seen any calculus on the EEVblog, and it has Dave insulting lawyers, quoting old movie lines and telling nbc to kiss his "arse".
I love this guy.
Besides, this 'flux capacitor' is not a device that really exists or has any commercial potential.So this must be about NBC wanting to retain the sole capacity to market such t-shirts, themselves.
Dave was a madman back then
Never though that was coming. So what happened to NBC did they kiss your arse?
Now that you have the Flux Capacitor so imprinted in your brain, NBC have the power to decide upon what you can and cannot do. They hooked you up on their drug and now they can violate you as they see fit. You are NBC's bitch forever.
You shouldn't have liked the movie that much. What to do now? Boycott NBC Universal and advocate for copyright law liberalization. That's pretty much all you can do.
Willingly or not, most of us live with a copyright system that gives a monopoly for up to ~200 years. That is the main problem. Copyright terms should be shortened to the much more reasonable 20 years or so, as it was originally.
If you see something that you like, tell everybody how much you like it and thus help promoting it for free, you don't even get the right to sell t-shirts with a small part of it long after it stopped being a source of income for the copyright owners.
So, do you still like the BTTF films? 😉
Why do they bury lawyers in 100 ft (30m) deep graves??? Because deep down they're good guys!
It should include "complete and utter" after the "It's" or was that only in "It's complete and utter garbage"? That would be another idea for a shirt. 🙂
i copyrighted that phrase and im not afraid to sue
Oh, but of course you are infringing their copyright. Who would be so stupid to buy the dvd after they've already seen (at least one possible concept of) a drawing of a flux capacitor on the shirt?
I bet you've cost them at least several tens of billions of lost profits in that way.
i see only one possible solution: we have to go back in time and bang those lawyers mums…
dave you should make a flux capacitor and shove it up universals ass
I'm getting a copyright on breathing, from now on nobody can breath like me without paying me a royalty or asking for permission first! So everyone hold your breath or else! This is serious!
As someone mentioned: The problem is making profit with something they guessed out… If you would live in Germany they would f*** u up completely and you would have to pay a serious amount of money to them. Thats possible here…
love this
THATS WORTH A LIKE. eFF-uM DAVE. And thanks, for my moment of zentoday
If I was NBC I would have allowed you to keep selling the T-shirts but I would have demanded 10%! 😛