This is the ongoing trademark/rights saga that never ends. . . .

[yendi]

McFarlane is once again claiming that he owns the rights to Miracleman.

In related news, Vanilla Ice still insists he wrote the music for "Ice Ice Baby."

Comments

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

But the - and he - and -

*waves hands and squeaks*

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

but Vanilla Ice DID write the music for it. He took a sheet of the music from Bowie's song, took a clean sheet of music paper, and carefully wrote down all the notes that he liked from Bowie's music ...

[quillismightier.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I just spit coffee onto my monitor.

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

Computers run better with caffeine. *nods*

[quillismightier.livejournal.com]

Yes, Firefox started working better immediately afterward.

Icon love. Seriously.

[aiela.livejournal.com]

And his version goes "ting!" You cannot forget the ting! It makes it COMPLETELY different!

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

Heh, and now I'll be saying "ting!" all day ... thereby further convincing my coworkers I'm totally insane. ;)

Huzzah for the Ting!

[emerald-ibis.livejournal.com]

Exactly! That one little "ting!" must be respected!

Re: Huzzah for the Ting!

[jerel.livejournal.com]

In the next life, Freddie Mercury (who was a champion boxer in his youth) is totally going to kick Vanilla Ice's ass.

"I've got your 'ting!' right here, mate!"

Re: Huzzah for the Ting!

[emerald-ibis.livejournal.com]

I can only hope that I have ring-side seats to see it happen, too.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

I think Todd got into the monkey crack a couple of years ago, and still has not detoxed.

[yendi]

If I had a massive guilt complex as a result of making tons of money off stuff that sucks as much as Todd's stuff, I'd be at the monkey crack, too.

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

He also owns the rights to the 'ting', you know.

JSM

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see Gaiman's bemused response to that in his blog. (If he's legally allowed to comment.)

[yendi]

I've been clicking "reload" like a monkey on his page to see if he reponds, in fact. If his page goes down, it's probably my fault.

[divalea.livejournal.com]

He responded. It's inspiring. It almost makes me want to make an LJ post dissecting some of the idiot things that happened while I was at Image.

Allllmost.

[yendi]

What's scary is that I'm not sure there's anything you could say about them that would surprise me.