http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/04/news/companies/bratz_dolls.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008120406
Hey, it's a win... I'll take it!
Hey, it's a win... I'll take it!
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Bratz Dolls Banned by Federal Judge! YAAY!!!
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I always thought the Bratz Babyz were extremely creepy.
well I collect fashion dolls & have a few Bratz(some of the nicer non-whorish styles like the Midnight Masquarade & Genie dolls) but I would never buy one for my niece.
Freud said it: sometimes a doll is just a doll.... There is a big difference between the adult world and a child's fantasy world. Mixing these 2 think patterns does freedom no good. 
Did I just reply in a doll topic? A new recod of boredom! I should go back to my modeling!
Did I just reply in a doll topic? A new recod of boredom! I should go back to my modeling!
So presumably Mattel will be making Bratz dolls now-- wouldn't it be easier for them to just take a piece of the pie?
Hmm...kind of reminds me of National Periodical (original publishers of Superman comics) suing Fawcett because they claimed Shazam's Captain Marvel was a copyright infringement.
National/DC won and Captain Marvel Adventures and its related mags were all shut down in the early '50s until the property was later acquired by DC and published by them ever since 1973 or so.
The irony was that Captain Marvel had begun to outsell Supes which is the main reason they brought that suit in the first place. Guess it's okay to infringe on your copyrights as long as you own the infringing property.
National/DC won and Captain Marvel Adventures and its related mags were all shut down in the early '50s until the property was later acquired by DC and published by them ever since 1973 or so.
The irony was that Captain Marvel had begun to outsell Supes which is the main reason they brought that suit in the first place. Guess it's okay to infringe on your copyrights as long as you own the infringing property.
I thought the Bratz dolls were kind of funny. I have a couple of the little ones.
I think I'll go grab a couple at the store. Just for the heck of it.
I think I'll go grab a couple at the store. Just for the heck of it.
Wow, the reviews for that product are just ... precious.
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Am I living in an episode of Boston Legal?
Am I living in an episode of Boston Legal?
Although I am not a fan of the Bratz dolls, I am also not a fan of this sort of restriction on intellectual property rights. I don't think it's fair to claim ownership over every idea your employee comes up with, unless it directly applies to the product you're producing (that is, their idea would be a direct competitor to you) or they did it on company time (and even then, what's "company time"? If I daydream about an idea while I'm opening my mail, does that idea belong to the company?). I also don't like how it wasn't an issue to Mattel until Barbie sales dropped and they had to go hunting for another revenue stream.
That may be so as a matter of principle, but employees are generally aware of these contract clauses when they sign them.
Parenthetically, my understanding is that unlike TV writers, artists working on television series like "Star Trek" retain no ownership rights at all over designs they contribute to the shows. If I'm mistaken I'd certainly like to have that misimpression set straight, because it's always struck me as unfair. If a character who was original to a Trek script I wrote was reused in another script, for example, I would be paid a fee for the re-use. And I receive residuals for my work on the show to this day. That people like Rick Sternbach, Andy Probert or Mike Okuda don't receive similar treatment seems massively unfair on its face considering how much more important what they contributed to the Franchise is.
Parenthetically, my understanding is that unlike TV writers, artists working on television series like "Star Trek" retain no ownership rights at all over designs they contribute to the shows. If I'm mistaken I'd certainly like to have that misimpression set straight, because it's always struck me as unfair. If a character who was original to a Trek script I wrote was reused in another script, for example, I would be paid a fee for the re-use. And I receive residuals for my work on the show to this day. That people like Rick Sternbach, Andy Probert or Mike Okuda don't receive similar treatment seems massively unfair on its face considering how much more important what they contributed to the Franchise is.
this is bullshit, yes i don't like bratz dolls (I see them i stores and just go WTF?) but for a company to claim ownership to an intellectual property, one they originally REJECTED, especially YEARS after said property has been released is bull shit, and Mattel products just got dropped from my christmas shopping list
I haven't followed the case closely, but I do remember hearing about it some months ago. I think they did try to do an out-of-court deal but the Bratz guy didn't want to know, so Mattel took him to court. Might be misremembering though; I did read this months and months ago.
Well, they probably come to terms now-- nobody will want to leave the money-making machine shut down for too long. 