Yes but they waited through 8 games to do anything about it. Failing to protect your own ip weakens your case significantly.

It’s an interesting question. It also has a lot of implications for film - for instance, would Top Gun have needed permission from not just the U.S. Navy but from Grumman (now Northrop Grumman) since they made the F-14? What about the shipbuilding company that built the aircraft carrier portrayed? Worse, does Fiat…

Manufacturers of military equipment which is paid for by the civilian population demanding license payments is morally and ethically iffy, to say nothing of the legal implications it would have.

AMG is seeking enforcement by a federal court of a federal trademark. That enforcement is the government act that would putatively violate the First Amendment. This is a fair use issue.

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But...that’s true. The Pelicans were, and are dysfunctional. The Lakers are obviously dysfunctional as well (although the extent of that dysfunction was not apparent at the time, and a lot of that dysfunction would likely have been moot if they had landed Davis). The argument was never, ever, about whether the Lakers…

That would have been an absurd argument if it was the one anyone actually made! But, alas, it wasn’t. But good job burning that straw man to the ground!

It’s been like this for years. And it’s not even about adrenaline junkies, but about middle-aged rich dudes who can afford to pay all the fees and all the porters to carry all their shit to the top. And then, these super-serious “mountaineers” like nothing more than to look down their noses at all the broke-ass…

Exactly.  Everest has become Coachella.

What treatment do you recommend the doctor administer to the dead woman?

I mean...

I imagine part of the allure of climbing Everest was not just it being the highest point on Earth yet the now antiquated belief that so few people could actually do it.

The last election in Georgia was a master class in corruption and voter suppression.

Schadenfreude. That is all this is.

It’s actually mindblowing to me that people could think otherwise. If the police can use illegally-obtained evidence, they can just openly flout the law and videotape whoever they want, in whatever situation they choose - sure they can’t use it in court, who cares your reputation is ruined anyway. AND they can use the…

Putting aside the jokes (and there are so many) - if something is illegally obtained, it definitely should not become public record.  I am a huge proponent of open records laws, but if the police illegally obtain stuff, they shouldn’t be able to make it public as retribution for losing in court.

Well, that’s definitely a take.

A nation state literally lodged a formal diplomatic complaint against its depiction in this game.

This idea that anyone but some of the critics had problems with the tone and story is silly.

We’ve got a bunch of great candidates and none of them will ever pass the purity test.