{"id":33449,"date":"2019-11-15T06:49:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T03:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=33449"},"modified":"2019-11-15T06:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T03:49:29","slug":"monster-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/11\/15\/monster-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evil sludge company and trademark-trolls, Monster Energy, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191030041218\/https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/magazine\/a-dc-root-beer-company-an-energy-drink-behemoth-and-an-ugly-trademark-fight\/2019\/10\/21\/5f2b190c-e156-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html\">bully a maker of a children&#8217;s storybook<\/a>. They threatened to set their lawyers on the author of <em>Albert and the Amazing Pillow Monsters<\/em>, and have seemingly prevented him from publishing more such books.<\/p>\n<p>Many readers of this blog are experts and historians of horror art and metal music. As such does anyone out know of any &#8220;prior art&#8221; on the Monster Energy &#8220;claw&#8221; logo + the word &#8220;Monster&#8221;, which would help invalidate such claims? The company began 2002, and I can&#8217;t believe there isn&#8217;t some sort of &#8220;prior art&#8221; on some old heavy metal album cover, videogame, or even a pulp magazine cover.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Update: I&#8217;ve already found <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/monstermanualcom00ball\">Monster manual<\/a><\/em> (1994).  I&#8217;d imagine this would hold up quite well in court as &#8220;prior art&#8221; on the matter in relation to books and comics and suchlike. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/monstermanual.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"625\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50451\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evil sludge company and trademark-trolls, Monster Energy, bully a maker of a children&#8217;s storybook. They threatened to set their lawyers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/11\/15\/monster-trolls\/\">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-33449","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\/33449","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=33449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}