It was only this week that Zynga management finally decided whether to sue BWF or to greenlight Zynga's new, innovative "Bang with Friends with Friends" app. A rare paroxysm of self-respect at the company prevented them from taking both actions simultaneously.
Zynga sues sex app maker over Bang With Friends name
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#42Only Zynga could make this headline believable
The Susan B. Komen organization has sued several charities over the word "cure" (and especially "for the cure")
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/komen-foundation-ch...
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't make the connection at all until today. I think it's because "Words" is a noun, and "Bang" is a verb. "[noun] With Friends" gets represented as a completely different thing in my mind than "[verb] With Friends" (i.e. the latter is an action, the former is language nonsense).
The pattern doesn't actually hold: Matching With Friends and Hanging With Friends are both Zynga titles.
You're right. I didn't know about that two.
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#44Honestly, when you first heard of "Bang With Friends," would you have been surprised if it was yet another quality Zynga production? Even if you wouldn't have - "Bang With Friends" instantly connects with "Words With Friends" in my mind. This is a really unpopular and unexpected thing to say, but for once I don't think Zynga is in the wrong.
I believe you, but I didn't make the connection until today. To me, "with friends" seems like a common part of speech.
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#45Protecting trademarks is serious business. Remember when Monster Cable sued Monster Mini-golf? Personally, I think Zynga has more important things to worry about, and I get this is a big deal for the startup, but it's just a corporate lawyer doing his job. I'm not saying it's right, but if someone made another, more accurately targeted, ____ With Friends game, they could cite Zynga's inaction with respect to Bang Wit…
The only entities benefiting from the "protect it or lose it" IP laws are news agencies. It generates all sorts of weird "official business" conflict for them to gleefully report.
Don't forget the lawyers. They benefit quite a bit as well.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
i wonder how it would be in Canadian version. (sorry, our Northern friends, just watched bit too much "How i met your mother" :)
No apology necessary. We don't have as many amusing translations, but every year we do watch the Robin Sparkles Holiday Special on the CBC as a national tradition.
hear, hear!
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#47I prefer it in French version: Sexe Entre Amis 1. It just sounds more sexy. 2. It avoids US Trademark issues. 3. Carlos Danger is an investor.
Random note: My friend is married to a woman from France -- the first Christmas they were together after a few months of dating, she was like "have you seen 'Mother, I missed the Plane' it's a family tradition to watch it each Christmas," to which my friend said no. When she put the movie in, it was Home Alone Gotta love random translations
The weirdest ones are titles that get "translated" into a different one, also in English. E.g. "The In Crowd" becoming "Sex & Manipulations".
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#48Honestly, when you first heard of "Bang With Friends," would you have been surprised if it was yet another quality Zynga production? Even if you wouldn't have - "Bang With Friends" instantly connects with "Words With Friends" in my mind. This is a really unpopular and unexpected thing to say, but for once I don't think Zynga is in the wrong.
I made the connection: it's a parody, a clever(?) play on words riding off an existing franchise. I never once would have guessed it was made by the same people, because game developers tend not to make sex apps. I've never heard of it happening before.
This is much in the same way I never once thought that Pirates XXX was in any way related to the Disney series Pirates of the Caribbean, even though the guys who made Pirates XXX really want you to draw that connection. A rational person would realize that Zynga, much like Disney, is not in the business of facilitating promiscuous sex.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Random note: My friend is married to a woman from France -- the first Christmas they were together after a few months of dating, she was like "have you seen 'Mother, I missed the Plane' it's a family tradition to watch it each Christmas," to which my friend said no. When she put the movie in, it was Home Alone Gotta love random translations
The weirdest ones are titles that get "translated" into a different one, also in English. E.g. "The In Crowd" becoming "Sex & Manipulations".
One of my favorites is the German title for 'Die Hard', which is 'Stirb Langsam'. The literal translation of this is 'die slowly'...
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#50I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Seriously.
It does seem stupid but they have to. It's like the Bethesda / Mojang trademark battle over "Scrolls". Trademark law, at least in this country, is strict. If you don't go after potential trademark infringements diligently and in a reasonable time period, then you will quickly lose the legal right to do so.
Why couldn't they sublicense that name for a nominal amount to protect their TM? They want to sue.