Question for mods

[englishman]

The other day I replied to a post and I put in the word ******** woman ese.
Its got xxxx ed out as an expletive. Surely its part of our understanding of women.

 

[englishman]

there it is again *****ed out. Why would you get of a word like woman ese??? Whats next? AFC, DJ??

 

[Bible_Belt]

A certain writer of how-to-get-women material threatened to sue sosuave because he claimed that he was the first in the industry to use that word and was thus entitled to copyright protection, and therefore no one else could use that word without paying him money.

It is a tenuous legal argument at best, because copyright law only protects creative expressions, and should not be applicable to the use of terms as generic as "w0manese." I think the guy would lose if he did sue. However, intellectual property law is usually determined in practice by whoever can get a lawyer to send a nasty and threatening letter. The other side always caves to the demand, because it is much cheaper and easier than paying lawyers to fight about it in court.

 

[jimmy18]

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[englishman]

A certain writer of how-to-get-women material threatened to sue sosuave because he claimed that he was the first in the industry to use that word and was thus entitled to copyright protection, and therefore no one else could use that word without paying him money.

It is a tenuous legal argument at best, because copyright law only protects creative expressions, and should not be applicable to the use of terms as generic as "w0manese." I think the guy would lose if he did sue. However, intellectual property law is usually determined in practice by whoever can get a lawyer to send a nasty and threatening letter. The other side always caves to the demand, because it is much cheaper and easier than paying lawyers to fight about it in court.

Thanks for that, I'm actually relieved, for a minute I thought so suave had become politically correct.

 

[Atom Smasher]

I submit we change it to "womaneze".

I want to see if that goes through.

Edit: Yup, went through. From now on instead of "********" it's going to be "womaneze".