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Originally Posted by PullMyFinger
At the end of the day, politics in America is politics. And your opponent and their supporters will dig up such stuff and exploit any matter like that. It's how things work, and the timing of this is no coincidence whatsoever.
Any bad publicity like this is good. You can't just reduce things to being that simple.
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Assuming it's picked up by anyone who gives a shit. That's what BDC was on about. nobody cares. This will make some B-roll news, but worse stuff can be dug up on Linda and is barely being touched because nobody cares.
BDC may be an inbred, Amish hick with a fat fetish, but he's also correct.
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Originally Posted by NeanderCarl
Oh yeah? And why? Owen Hart, when he was alive, chose to sign a WWF talent contract to earn his living. Rightly or wrongly, the standard WWF/E contract says that any creative undertaking as part of WWE programming is owned by the company to do what they will with it. You sign, they own. And Owen would have been aware of this upon signing, and still elected to do so.
Whether a guy is dead or alive doesn't change that fact.
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Hmmm....You raise a good point. Except if that was true, they wouldn't need tademarks at all. They wouldn't need to license with other individuals, like former wrestlers for their likenesses in games and on media.
Why, they'd still be able to call it WWF on tape if your argument was correct. No blurs on corners because LOL THERE ON CAMERA.
Except copyright and trademark don't work that way. Now, someone like Chris Jericho has signed his ring name over to WWE. He's a willing party in the trademark claim on his name, so it's kosher. He can't wrestle anywhere else under that name without their okay, and they can use his name freely. Likenesses are a little different, and a person's identity is even harder to deal with. This is why so many guys enter under pseudonyms, even if those names are similar to their own and such, why guys like Warrior changed their names to be able to continue to use them.
Contracts have gotten way stricter since Owen's days, which include things like no-compete clauses. There's only been a trademark on Jericho's name since 2005, which should tell you how different a ballgame it is now. But a person's own identity and likeness don't go away because of a contract with WWE. Or being on film.
A kind of flip side example was the suit over Hall and Nash in WCW. WWF sued over the
implication that they were affiliated with WWF and their WWF counterparts.