More Reason To Hate Twilight (And Twi-Hards)

Last count the whole Sparkly Vampire thing was all the rage.  While I’ll never understand the thing for it, it was just a quiet contention.  Now however, it’s something else.

I will now loudly proclaim: Screw Twilight.

If that sounds a tad dramatic, the company (hive-overmind) that owns the rights to the film (yes, this is more trademark/ copyright ranting) has decided they totally and completely own anything to do with vampires: Sparkly or not.

Wonderful. 

With the newest edition of the Twilight joke coming out, they are deciding that the time is fab to go on a lawsuit bender.  The first one down?  Zazzle.com.  In a suit claiming copyright infringement, Summit Entertainment is suing the POD website based on a few overzealous fans. 

From Zazzle.com supporters (commenters on the website linked below)”

Posted by: Lydia
October 31, 2009 10:59 AM

The problem with suing Zazzle for copyright infringement is that the actual offenders are individuals who use the Zazzle service. When Zazzle becomes aware of infringement, it immediately removes the products in question–particularly when it’s obvious the shopkeeper does not have the right to the designs, as in the case of Twilight merchandise.
Unfortunately for the designers on Zazzle, this legal action has apparently resulted in some over-enthusiastic removal of products, as there’s been a rash of unwarranted product deletions over the past couple of weeks. I myself have had several products deleted, reportedly on the behalf of Summit Entertainment, when they contained nothing in the design, description, or even the keywords that was even remotely related to Twilight or New Moon (An artist’s palette mousepad and a baby skunk mousepad were the first designs to go.)
Generic vampire and werewolf designs too have been under attack lately, infuriating honest designers who had no intention of trying to profit off of the Twilight or New Moon movies.
To make matters worse, products that have nothing to do with the movies, but have something to do with "twilight" as in the time of day, or "Cullen" as in the poet are being removed as well. In their enthusiasm to protect their own intellectual property, Summit Entertainment has trampled on the rights of others by falsely reporting countless products as violations when they were nothing of the sort, interfering with the livelihoods of who knows how many artists, designers, and shopkeepers.

 

Posted by: Carolyn
November 4, 2009 2:33 PM

I think Summit Entertainment is a blood thirsty bunch of "blankety- Blanks" No one "owns" the rights to a pperfectly good word in the english language, like "vampire", "bat", "blood" nor do they own every picture in the world of a pair of vampire fangs. Shame on them.

 

Mind you, the company isn’t exactly well known  The only real hit they have is the whole Twilight thing, and honestly that is it.  Nothing else.  Due to this, Summit will threaten their lawyers on you if you use vampires on things, no matter if they are of the sparkly ilk or not.

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