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05-25-11, 11:11 PM #1
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Disney did WHAT???
LOS ANGELES – The Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday that it has withdrawn its application to trademark the phrase "SEAL Team 6," the elite unit that killed Osama bin Laden, after the Navy moved to protect its rights and the entertainment giant endured a wave of criticism and late-night jibes.
Disney sought the trademark rights on May 3, two days after U.S. operatives raided a luxury compound in Pakistan and killed the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
Disney withdraws Navy SEAL trademark application - Yahoo! News
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05-26-11, 07:08 AM #2
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I'm no friend of the mouse, but when this story came out and a couple friends invited me to share their moral outrage I didn't comply. Instead I suggested Disney, being a huge media company, may well have an automated system that tracked the popularity of search terms and quietly trademarked dozens of names a day, few of which they'd ever use. I thought that was sufficiently sleazy and fully expected a press release to quickly follow where they threw an intern under the bus and used the attention to announce a new attraction.
Turns out I'm not nearly cynical enough. I'll work on it.
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05-26-11, 12:23 PM #3
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