Thursday, December 17, 2009

What's Rape If It Doesn't Pay?

The AP, proud wielders of the copyright cudgel, alert us to this piece of attempted profiteering:
Ex-lawmaker convicted of rape: Name is copyrighted
By CHET BROKAW (AP) – 1 day ago

PIERRE, S.D. — A former South Dakota lawmaker convicted of raping his two foster daughters has sent news organizations what he claims is a copyright notice that seeks to prevent the use of his name without his consent.

A letter and an accompanying document labeled "Common Law Copyright Notice" said former state Rep. Ted Alvin Klaudt is reserving a common-law copyright of a trade name or trademark for his name. It said no one can use his name without his consent, and anyone who does would owe him $500,000.

23 comments:

J— said...

You know how courts can set thing up so that convicted murderers who write and publish books based on their crimes don't get the profits from their book sales? Maybe the court in South Dakota could do something similar with this dude's name.

Substance McGravitas said...

Lookit the lib who wants to interfere in the marketplace.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I have copyrighted 'zombie'

But it's a relative bargain; I will settle for a flat fee of $10,000 per use.

I am starting to count your posts now, Mr. McG...

tigris said...

Is former state Rep. Ted Alvin Klaudt afraid his trademarked brand name for multiple family-member child rape will become a generic term for just any old child rape, that he will become the q-tip or koolaid of child rape?

Smut Clyde said...

A long time and several careers ago I found myself editing a university magazine. Hard to believe. One week when I couldn't be arsed writing an editorial, I filled the column with a page of lyrics from Schwitter's Ur Sonata, starting
Bumm bimbimm bamm bimbimm
Bumm bimbimm bamm bimbimm

which I thought was close enough to my usual weekly exudation of words that no-one would spot the difference.
Further down the page, Schwitters makes a sudden lyrical leap and chants
Tuii tuii tuii tuii
Tee tee tee tee


So a couple of days later we heard from lawyers hired by a Ms Touhey, spinster of the parish, accusing us of publishing a parody of her name and demanding an immediate apology. Oh how we laughed.

Substance McGravitas said...

That's great.

I used to have this record and I'm pretty sure the JanusNode can produce equally enthralling text.

Substance McGravitas said...

the q-tip or koolaid of child rape?

Was it a rape or was it a Ted Alvin Klaudt rape?

mikey said...

The "Dada for Now" link leads us, importantly, to this precaution in regard to the Nurse with a Wound/Organum release:

Side A is designed to be listened to at low volume.

I woulda thought that might take all the drama out of Nurse with a Wound...

Smut Clyde said...

I'm not entirely convinced that Nurse with Wound is intended to be heard at any volume. Their target audience consists of people who grumble about the over-commercial sound of Throbbing Gristle.
I do own a NWW album but I bought it mainly for the cover art.

Substance McGravitas said...

Nurse With Wound are English. An American band with a hideous name like that would be reliably earsplitting, but the English just aren't as good at selling things.

Substance McGravitas said...

I do own a NWW album

I thought I had one, but it turns out to be a Current 93 album, which just goes to show how INTERESTING both bands are.

mikey said...

Personally, I'd just like to venture that the definite article would have added a great deal to the gestalt.

Nurse with {a} wound kind of personalizes the wounded nurse, and the very concept that she has {a} wound makes her that much more accessable.

Nurse with Wound sounds like the first half of a cheesy AP headline...

mikey said...

Dateline Mexico City (AP Wire)...

Nurse with Wound drinks huge bottle of tequila, has sex with steamer trunk....


See what I mean?

J Neo Marvin said...

Well, I thought Nurse With Wound were a lot of fun myself.

I wish I still had the poster for one of their releases that had the gushing text: "Listen to this LSD-hashy-fixy-jointy sound. Take a trip to your inner light!" How can anyone say no to that?

J Neo Marvin said...

That said, I must admit that both Smegma and Severed Heads did what they do better.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

They sound a bit like Boy Dirt Car.

Here's a bit of description:

"Milwaukee's Boy Dirt Car were their good city's preeminent punk-noise-industrial outfit who roamed the state and country from roughly 1981 'til 1989. Formed by the disgruntled duo of Eric Lunde and Darren Brown after being inspired by a local cacophonous Glen Branca gig, they decided to gather a group of fellow miscreants from the Milwaukee punk scene with a mission to create a truly inspired, ungodly, riot-inducing racket. Roping in, amongst others, Dan Kubinski and Keith Brammer from local hardcore kings, Die Kreuzen, they formed Boy Dirt Car. With a sound approximating some sort of bizarre stew of Throbbing Gristle, early Sonic Youth, Birthday Party, AMM and Einsterzunde Neubauten, "

Not everybody's cup of tea, but they had a big following in Denmark apparently.

J Neo Marvin said...

Used to have a split vinyl album with Boy Dirt Car on one side and F/i on the other. It sounded good blasting at top volume in the Rough Trade shop in San Francisco. Harder to get into when I put it on at home.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Ahh, so J Neo is the one that bought it....

one of my good friends played "percussion and circular saw" with them for a short period.

Banging on things and rubbing a skilsaw against a sheet of steel. Sound AND a light show!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Man, Milwaukee was a happening place in those days....

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I used to have a copy of the tape "Gravel on Urine" rattling around here.... I doubt whether it survived in any meaningful way.

Of course, I also have a recording of J NEo doing "I Feel Like Fletcher Christian" so I am obviously a Zombie of Discernment and Taste...

Substance McGravitas said...

I saw and liked Die Kreuzen. They were already skirting the industrial side of things.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

"skirting"?

they did do a loud noise.

True Story: a while back, I designed a house for some friends; when it was being finished, I thought I recognized one of the painters. Turned out to be Erik Tunison, the Die Kreuzen drummer.

He did a good job. Closest I came to a musical collaboration, until I sang backup to an empty room with Sigmund Snopek a couple of years ago...

Substance McGravitas said...

They were still awful hardcore when I saw them, though I have memories of this metal fence...