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11:48 pm
February 5, 2016
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The Marvel comic Multiple Man is getting a movie staring James Franco in 2020.
Some may know that this comic is where Jamie Madrox stole his name, as the character’s real name is Jamie Madrox.
My question is, could Jamie get sued or have to change his name over this? Not only did he use the name Madrox but he has even gone far enough to refer to himself as The Multiple Man many times back in the day. I know that things like the Power Rangers shirts and stuff like that is covered under parody law, but could this also?
I’m not trying to start some shit so let’s not make this a flame war. The fact is, a major studio is about to release a super hero property with an A-list actor and they will probably do a copyright sweep online. He has been successfully using and selling the name Jamie Madrox as his serious rap name, could this cause issues? I mean, I don’t think you can call yourself Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark and get away with it. There was a female singer who real last name was Lennon and Yoko Ono successfully sued her.
If this were to happen, would Jamie go back to Mr. Bones? Are they not even big enough to get noticed? Any other info that someone can provide?
11:58 pm
May 22, 2012
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Deiko17 said
My question is, could Jamie get sued or have to change his name over this?
sure. im a lil surprised they never fucked with him yet. the marvel of 1993 woulda raked him over the coals in court, then walked away with his identity, his money, and probably his first born. they were quick to sink money into cases of infringement that were a lot more tenuous than this [anybody remember defiant…? nope].
guess marvel mellowed out a lil.
ya know, technically, marvel could legally prevent anyone anywhere from using the word ‘superhero’ without permission. true.
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12:38 am
July 28, 2016
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You can’t copyright a name, only trademark it. You can’t fight a trademark unless it either is directly misrepresenting itself or causes confusion in the market place.
You can make a comicbook called Bat Man about a guy who collects baseball bats but the second the logo looks like a Batman logo or he is drawn lurking in the shadows they can pounce.
That’s why you’ll get two movies with the same name sometimes, but they’ll be very different.
Disney are notorious for going after anything that encroaches on their properties. If there was any grounds at all, they would have crushed him before making the movie announcement.
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2:49 am
May 22, 2012
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oh yeah, marvel is disney…
quit on marvel well before that.
awfully paranoid, arent you?
8:02 am
February 14, 2013
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Good question. I often wondered about this same thing pertaining to Wu-Tang. Seeing as how many of them have superhero aliases. I was a lil bummed when I found out he just kinda stole that name. Sall good tho. Hes not tha first
8:26 am
March 30, 2013
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Don’t certain properties become public domain after a certaijn amount of time in pop culture? I thought that was the case for characters like Batman and Milhouse, who were used in “The Lego Movie”. Like Chewbacca, Ninja Turtles, etc? Not sure where I heard this but I believe it’s after a certain amount of time and people can use characters at their whimsy.
Here’s an interesting tidbit about one of our favorite herb strains, Gorilla Glue:
https://herb.co/2017/10/23/gorilla-glue-lawsuit-verdict/
Since we all have to use a different name, I’ve seen it called Ape Adhesive. I’ve suggested our dispensary call it Sticky Monkey, Chewy Capuchin, Mandrill Muck, or Primate Paste.
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Noah Fence12:16 pm
February 14, 2013
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lol. Sticky Monkey. That’s awesome.
2:17 pm
July 28, 2016
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Old Mr Dangerous said
Don’t certain properties become public domain after a certaijn amount of time in pop culture? I thought that was the case for characters like Batman and Milhouse, who were used in “The Lego Movie”. Like Chewbacca, Ninja Turtles, etc? Not sure where I heard this but I believe it’s after a certain amount of time and people can use characters at their whimsy.Here’s an interesting tidbit about one of our favorite herb strains, Gorilla Glue:
https://herb.co/2017/10/23/gorilla-glue-lawsuit-verdict/
Since we all have to use a different name, I’ve seen it called Ape Adhesive. I’ve suggested our dispensary call it Sticky Monkey, Chewy Capuchin, Mandrill Muck, or Primate Paste.
It takes many many decades before it becomes public domain.
Lego buys licensing rights to all sorts of characters which is why they were able to work with different properties.
https://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/25/cnbc-explains-how-copyrights-become-public-domain.html
This is two years old and might be out of date but it’s a good starting point.
If you really believed that all lives matter we wouldn't need to say black lives matter
3:01 pm
January 4, 2017
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I don’t think he would there’s a joker with the batman logo tattooed on him dc never went at him so I think marvel going at Jamie is doubtful
4:42 pm
April 4, 2012
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Well shit, I never knew Madrox took his name from a comic…?
5:14 pm
December 18, 2012
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Not sure what marvel would go after? The twiztid albums are twiztid and say nothing about Jamie madrox, besides some lyrics. Even the phatso album is technically just “madrox”. Maybe that’s why it isn’t “Jamie madrox”.
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