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Originally Posted by elcreative
And being asked to pay a nominal $100 a year isn't exactly onerous and people/companies do have to protect their trademarks etc or they can be deemed to have entered the public domain...  |
Except that Middle-Earth Enterprises only made the $100 offer AFTER Stephen Fry and Ian McKellen publicized it, causing a large outcry (the FB page supporting the pub has over 50,000 members).
So this is more a story of celebrity and the Internet rallying around the little guy.
Which makes the cry to boycott the film even more wrong-headed.