what is the thought on this...

[Mosiah]

And it was that sort of small-mindedness that allowed foreigners to trademark the name Reggae Boyz when we should have done it right away.

(If what I have been told is correct.)

Up you mighty race! One day, Marcus, one day!

[Don1]

Big Thinking tuh di Werl!!

[Bricktop]

Idiot thinking:

"I know it would not stand up in a court of law...but hey at least i was thinking big..."

[Bricktop]

What an idiot...man waan trademark a musical genre..,mental midget...

[Mosiah]

that's all yuh on this site for Bricky, to hurl insults?!!?

[Bricktop]

If you want the kindler, gentler Brickie just say so

[Mosiah]

kinder, gentler and quieter...please and thanks!

[Bricktop]

and quieter...please and thanks!

When Audrey Sewell packs her bags and goes...

[Mosiah]

yuh really tink mi care?

[Bricktop]

Because you are a partisan hack

[Don1]

Up you mighty race! One day, Marcus, one day!

Yep... if wi cyan survive the small minded meantime

Mi memba couple year aback wen one lady sue McDonalds ar one ah dem fast food place...ova di fack seh dem McDonalds hot tea spill an burn dem.... Court gi di lady multiple millions.. an tell McDonalds fi mek sure dat nuh appen agaain

It neva matta seh is she did want hot tea...she did buy dat harself...an she did spill dat pon harself

Fram mi si dat mi know anyting possible inna Babylon courthouse

Slew...Sue Dem!!

[Bricktop]

What the court actually said was that McDonalds needs to monitor the temperature of the coffee that they serve to their customers....but your small mind jump on a headline without understanding the facts behind the case...what a maroon...

[Don1]

Ah wha suh...Yuh juss ah falla man round di board suh

Yuh mussi one Puppy ar one Mantu... Yuh fi tap falla falla Man round di place yute

Renk

[Bricktop]

Exposing the simpleton...

[Bricktop]

Hate to see my people wallowing in ignorance...read and comprehend:

The most prominent examples to copyright’s attitude towards cultural genres are found among literary and dramatic works. In numerous cases standard attributes of a literary or a dramatic genre were held unprotected, being described as “general” or “’stock’ themes”, “clichés” or “generic components”, which “constitute part of the common stock of literary composition”.
Such components include, inter alia, the work’s subject and central theme -- such as “a story of betrayal”, “the-maid-who-marries-the-landlord” narrative, a “police fiction”, or “a story of nuclear smuggling”; its setting (for example: a story taking place in a convent, in the Australian jungle, or in the 41st precinct of the South Bronx), as well as storylines and scenes which typically flow from the central theme or from the genre: Thus, its was held that a gunfight scene in a Western, the crossing-the-border scene in a Spy Thriller film, the arrival of a soldier at a convent during wartime, or a worm-eating scene in a Reality television show – none of them are protected by copyright.

Additional elements which have not been afforded copyright protection are typical and stereotype characters commonly related to the theme, including their cliché characteristics, stereotypical behavior and even their standard dress mode. Thus, the Irish-cop character in police dramas; the tough officer doing things “his-own-way” in the military-fiction genre, the wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing character in a Mystery- Thriller, or the plain language including syntax errors of the male-warrior-hero in he Pulp-Fiction genre were all held not protected by copyright. Similarly it was held that the character of a magician wearing a tuxedo and a hat is “too generic” to enjoy copyright protection, and so is the “Irish father” characterized stereotypically by patriarchism and religiousness.

The narrower protection phenomenon is not confined to the literary and dramatic genres. It can also be observed with respect to musical works. Thus, copyright protection is normally not afforded to song themes such as “a first person love song”40, or a song whose subject is “a dance movement typical of the “Rap” genre”. Nor does copyright protect rhythms, harmony which is “achieved according to rules which have been known for many years”, common musical forms such as “verse- chorus-verse-chorus” or an “AABA” construction45. Likewise, it was held that the use of a certain musical key, a common chord progression46 and popular musical traits such as descending melodic lines do not warrant copyright protection. These non-protected elements have been described as “most common in all of the music of Western civilization”, “most common in Country music”, “too common”, “extremely common in the pop rock genre” as well as in “Eastern European folk music” or plainly “common to the genre”. Case law further indicates that a claim to copyright in a musical genre in its entirety is also likely to fail.

Finally, while there is little explicit discussion of genres in the category of “artistic works”, a few cases do demonstrate that generic features of artistic works are also likely to enjoy lesser copyright protection. Thus, it was held that lighting, angle and choice of subject that are typical to the “realistic” style used in menu photographing are not protected by copyright. Nor does copyright protect elements dictated by “the conventions of the commercial product shot”.