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Via /.: Wal-Mart Trying to Trademark the Smiley Face:

Until now the smiley face had been considered in the public domain in the US, and therefore free for anyone to use. Wal-Mart spokesman John Smiley told the Los Angeles Times that it had not moved to register the trademark until Mr Loufrani had threatened to do so.

Wow! Does them and Disney seem cut out of the same cloth, no? Who needs creative writing or marketing when you can just rip-off the public domain for all your biggest successes? I’d say I sniffed a merger if it weren’t for their conflicting values.

(Sorry for the blatant rip-off of the Slashdot plug. My internet connection is super flaky at the moment and I haven’t got all day to load some text…)

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