A tip of the pen to Jay, from the Too-Close-to-the-Truth Department: Marvel Sues Makers of Pens, Pencils.
Los Angeles — Soon after its lawsuit against the two companies behind the popular online superhero game City of Heroes, Marvel Enterprises has announced more lawsuits targeted at producers of pens and other writing instruments."It's the same principle," Marvel's lawyers explained. "Just as NCSoft's and Cryptic's game, with its excessively customizable character editor, allowed players to create accurate renditions of our trademarks, so too, do pens allow for pictures of our characters to be drawn and keyboards allow the names of our characters to be typed." […]
I haven't seen anyone organizing a letter-writing campaign, but why not start at the top?
Allen Lipson
President and Chief Executive Officer
Marvel Enterprises, Inc.
10 East 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
Please tell me that's a joke press release.
Posted by: CF at November 18, 2004 12:43 PMYes, Virginia, it's satire. But I was serious about starting a letter-writing campaign.
Posted by: rv at November 18, 2004 10:56 PM