Readers here shouldn’t need to be reminded that the Tolkien Estate, through its company Middle-Earth Enterprises, is known to be extremely aggressive with its enforcement of intellectual prop…
  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    10 months ago

    So wait, is “Lord of” anything a violation of the copyright or is it just words that rhyme with “rings”?
    Either way it seems pretty ridiculous.

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
    19·
    10 months ago

    What about “Lord of the Fries”? If that one doesn’t get shutdown then neither should this one.

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
      1·
      10 months ago

      That’s for lots of the flies, though, less litigious as less commercilisation. I’m fact, keeping it in the public consciousness is likely to the published benefit.

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Don’t have much knowledge of NZ laws, but they certainly have a vested interest in keeping the Tolkien estate happy. Whether they have prior laws to support that, or there was pressure from the top in this case, it tracks that the lawsuit ended like this.

    • abbotsbury@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      I don’t think a food truck counts as satire. Satire is like the “Bored of the Rings” Lampoon book from the '70s, it actually had something to say regarding the material it was satirical of.

      I may be underestimating the satirical capacity of a food truck, or maybe the legal definition of satire in NZ, but to me it’s just a cheeky name.

  • Erasmus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    Ehhh…I could see this if it was book or reading related or if they are using a Wizard or the like eating wings in their logo.

    But otherwise this is a far stretch.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    51·
    10 months ago

    I want to say this was an obvious outcome. But I guess it is an unrelated industry. However I don’t buy that you come up with lord of the wings and think that it’s so original and so unrelated and so obviously has to do wth lordship and royalty.