{"id":16901,"date":"2018-09-11T00:17:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=16901"},"modified":"2018-09-11T00:17:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:17:51","slug":"its-a-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/11\/its-a-con\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently comic conventions across America are having to change their name, following a bizarre and absurd legal ruling that &#8220;Comic Con&#8221; is a trademark and infringement can carry a $4m liability. <em>Techdirt<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20180906\/10085140589\/more-comic-conventions-change-their-names-after-crazy-sdcc-attorneys-fees-injunction-ruling.shtml\">has the details<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Presumably similar legal fears, unfounded or not, will now cause all other &#8216;Cons&#8217; to have to change the &#8216;Con&#8217; bit of their names. Since the same legal arm-twisting could be tried on conventions other than those for comics.  Necronomicon Providence should be safe though, as the -con there is part of another name, arising from fiction that&#8217;s in the public domain.  Perhaps that&#8217;s the trick for conventions &mdash; find a new public-domain name that naturally ends in &#8216;con&#8217; and is associated with your topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently comic conventions across America are having to change their name, following a bizarre and absurd legal ruling that &#8220;Comic &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/11\/its-a-con\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}