Remember when France sued everyone who tried to sell sparkling wine as champagne, and won? Or when France made everyone start using ‘blue cheese’ instead of Roquefort?
Entries Tagged as 'Hemingway'
The Roquefort Files
March 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Popular, Trademark
Tags:champagne·cheese·France·Hemingway·Roquefort·tariff·The Sun Also Rises·Trademark
The 10 Best Book Titles Ever
November 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Copyright, Popular
Readers who aren’t charmed or amused by a fat, flatulent, gluttonous, loud, lying, hypocritical, self-deceiving, self-centered blowhard who masturbates to memories of a dog and pretends to profundity are not likely to enjoy this one.
Tags:Copyright·Harry Potter·Hemingway·literature·novels·title
The Magic Copryright Chart
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Copyright
Under current copyright law, if someone stumbled across the missing suitcase of Hemingway’s short stories (described in my post below) and his heirs decided — as they surely would — to publish them, how long would the copyright last?
Hemingway’s Suitcase
March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Arcana
As the literary-minded will no doubt recall, on the cusp of Hemingway’s early fame virtually all of his finished but as yet unpublished work was lost in a bizarre twist of fate. The incident, which occurred in late December, 1922, is noted by Hemingway in A Moveable Feast and receives half a paragraph in Carlos [...]
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