popadopolis Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Really, how important is the ® registered trademark thingy mean when you can make a movie that is called Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Does this mean we all can make a movie that's called Monkey island... or did lucasarts get paid for it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Trademarks are region- and product specific. So LucasArts probably has Full Throttle registered in the US and a bunch of other territories for stuff like "merchandising", "games and toys" and "electronic software". Those categories are hypothetical, I don't know their exact names, but that's how it works. I guess the film company owns the trademark for Full Throttle motion pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 Also I don't think it counts for Charlies Angels as it is in the title along with Charlies Angels II so it would create a brand new title Charlies Angels II: Full Throttle and therfore wouldn't count. If that wasn't the case then people could get sued every time they used the words Full Throttle in a title for something, may it be in that order or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabacco Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 Nah, that's not true, Neil. Otherwise I could make a movie called "Star Wars Terminator meets The Hulk" without fear of legal problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 5, 2003 Share Posted July 5, 2003 hmm, I guess that's true, then again, that would be a helluva good movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabacco Posted July 5, 2003 Share Posted July 5, 2003 Vader: No Arnold, I am your father. Arnold: Aaaaargh! [Hulks Up] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien426 Posted July 5, 2003 Share Posted July 5, 2003 Yoda: "But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they." Hulk: "You know, he's right, Luke. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." - Star Wars Terminator meets The Hulk (imdb) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 5, 2003 Share Posted July 5, 2003 Yoda: Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate... leads to big green thing with green eyes and one phrase. Anakin: Asta La Vista Padme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPeel2001 Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 Nah, that's not true, Neil. Otherwise I could make a movie called "Star Wars Terminator meets The Hulk" without fear of legal problems There's obvious differences there. It's not illegal to make a movie called "The Unofficial Story of Star Wars" but it would be illegal to make a movie called "Star Wars: Episode 1 The movie that SHOULD have been!" and then put a ton of Star Wars characters in it. Full Throttle is a game and not a film. I believe anyone could make a movie called "The Secret of Monkey Island" so long as they just didn't steal the ideas of the game (ie it was completely unreated --- which is highly unlikely considering the bizarre title ). Anyhoo, I think that's how they got away with it. There are plenty of porn movies with the same (or very similar) titles to "proper" movies too. ~ John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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