You know, that kinda reminds me of how the reason the Nintendo GameCube was abbreviated as GCN is reportedly due to NGC being the name of a Japanese phone company. Not only is there no evidence that this supposed company existed at all, but the URL for the GameCube page on the Japanese Nintendo website abbreviates it as NGC anyway!
Wow, like jeez, this kind of bullcrap isn't just a thing with SpongeBob. This bullcrap spawned elsewhere as well! What other bullcrap copyright/trademark have you seen that is just like that?
The main character of The Secret of NIMH was originally going to be called Mrs. Frisby as she is in the original book, but there was a problem because of the trademark for the Frisbee toy. All the dialogue was finished by the time the issue came up, so everyone had to come back and re-record the name as Brisby. In that case, though, the Frisbee was and still is a well-known brand.
Oh, one other instance I remember reading about was on Codename: Kids Next Door creator Mr. Warburton's blog. He said that the show was originallygoing to be just Kids Next Door until it was discovered there was another cartoon out there called Pigs Next Door.
Wow, like jeez, this kind of bullcrap isn't just a thing with SpongeBob. This bullcrap spawned elsewhere as well! What other bullcrap copyright/trademark have you seen that is just like that?
The main character of The Secret of NIMH was originally going to be called Mrs. Frisby as she is in the original book, but there was a problem because of the trademark for the Frisbee toy. All the dialogue was finished by the time the issue came up, so everyone had to come back and re-record the name as Brisby. In that case, though, the Frisbee was and still is a well-known brand.
Oh, one other instance I remember reading about was on Codename: Kids Next Door creator Mr. Warburton's blog. He said that the show was originallygoing to be just Kids Next Door until it was discovered there was another cartoon out there called Pigs Next Door.
Well, Codename: Kids Next Door became very popular meanwhile Pigs Next Door has since been more or less forgotten about as it never reached any sort of popularity.
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The main character of The Secret of NIMH was originally going to be called Mrs. Frisby as she is in the original book, but there was a problem because of the trademark for the Frisbee toy. All the dialogue was finished by the time the issue came up, so everyone had to come back and re-record the name as Brisby. In that case, though, the Frisbee was and still is a well-known brand.
Oh, one other instance I remember reading about was on Codename: Kids Next Door creator Mr. Warburton's blog. He said that the show was originallygoing to be just Kids Next Door until it was discovered there was another cartoon out there called Pigs Next Door.
Well, Codename: Kids Next Door became very popular meanwhile Pigs Next Door has since been more or less forgotten about as it never reached any sort of popularity.
Yeah, you're right about that. I'm a huge fan of Codename: Kids Next Door, but I never even heard of Pigs Next Door until Mr. Warburton mentioned it. There are no similarities at all between the two shows besides the titles so it seems ridiculous that it was even a problem at all, but I guess Cartoon Network wanted to be extra careful or something.
It's weird we have no info about the SpongeBoy mop or if it even existed at all. Almost like it was a copyright trap to fool people into believing it's real
It's weird we have no info about the SpongeBoy mop or if it even existed at all. Almost like it was a copyright trap to fool people into believing it's real
Seems likely. Either that, or the SpongeBoy mop a copyright troll.
It's weird we have no info about the SpongeBoy mop or if it even existed at all. Almost like it was a copyright trap to fool people into believing it's real
Seems likely. Either that, or the SpongeBoy mop a copyright troll.
They sure do. Seriously, I want my chocolate factory level in a Mario game!
I'm gonna start quoting you whenever you derail a thread from here on out. This is the first post.
That's actually an obscure reference to a particular copyright trap. Specifically, it was a hoax made by Jeff Rovin in one of his "How To Win Nintendo Games" guidebooks as a way to catch others plagiarizing his work:
Post by emptyeyesemptymind on Sept 5, 2022 16:12:42 GMT
Yeah, I still think the actual mop didn't exist. It's been a while since I've been through this thread: how long into production did the name stick? Did someone see this as a cash grab and try to get Nickelodeon to pay up?
I'm gonna start quoting you whenever you derail a thread from here on out. This is the first post.
That's actually an obscure reference to a particular copyright trap. Specifically, it was a hoax made by Jeff Rovin in one of his "How To Win Nintendo Games" guidebooks as a way to catch others plagiarizing his work:
That's actually an obscure reference to a particular copyright trap. Specifically, it was a hoax made by Jeff Rovin in one of his "How To Win Nintendo Games" guidebooks as a way to catch others plagiarizing his work:
That's actually an obscure reference to a particular copyright trap. Specifically, it was a hoax made by Jeff Rovin in one of his "How To Win Nintendo Games" guidebooks as a way to catch others plagiarizing his work: