merlin: A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media [“Legal Stuff”] Still one of my favorite easy-to-overlook pages on the web. Where all that homey prairie warmth meets some hilariously detailed use of big-ass, American IP laws. The following are registered trademarks and service marks of Garrison Keillor: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION®; BE WELL. DO GOOD WORK AND KEEP IN TOUCH®; CAFÉ BOEUF®; CATCHUP ADVISORY BOARD®; COMEDY COLLEGE®; GUY NOIR®; GUY’S SHOES®; LAKE WOBEGON®; LAKE WOBEGON MINNESOTA GATEWAY TO CENTRAL MINNESOTA®; LAKE WOBEGON WHIPPETS®; NEWS FROM LAKE WOBEGON®; PHC®; POWDERMILK BISCUITS®; THE COFFEE CLUB ORCHESTRA®; THE WRITER’S ALMANAC®; WHERE THE WOMEN ARE STRONG, THE MEN ARE GOOD LOOKING, AND ALL OF THE CHILDREN ARE ABOVE AVERAGE®. The following are trademarks and service marks of Garrison Keillor: AMERICAN DUCT TAPE COUNCIL™; AMERICAN RADIO COMPANY™; AMERICAN RADIO COMPANY OF THE AIR™; BEBOP-A-REEBOP RHUBARB PIE™; BERTHA’S KITTY BOUTIQUE™; CHATTERBOX CAFE™; FEARMONGER’S SHOPPE™; FISHER’S COFFEE™; GARRISON KEILLOR’S AMERICAN RADIO COMPANY™; IT’S BEEN A QUIET WEEK IN LAKE WOBEGON™; LAKE WOBEGON JACK SUMUS QUID SUMUS™; L’UNIVERSITE DE LAC WOBEGON™; OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL RESPONSIBILITY™; PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION OF ENGLISH MAJORS™; SIDETRACK TAP™; WHIPPETS™. I have nothing against protecting your work and your brand (it’s something I’m actually working on), but this is epic.  You can’t link to this page without mentioning that it says at the top “Garrison Keillor sure owns a lot of words!”  They make fun of themselves about the fact that they own so many, they aren’t trying to be scary.

merlin:

A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media [“Legal Stuff”]

Still one of my favorite easy-to-overlook pages on the web. Where all that homey prairie warmth meets some hilariously detailed use of big-ass, American IP laws.

The following are registered trademarks and service marks of Garrison Keillor: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION®; BE WELL. DO GOOD WORK AND KEEP IN TOUCH®; CAFÉ BOEUF®; CATCHUP ADVISORY BOARD®; COMEDY COLLEGE®; GUY NOIR®; GUY’S SHOES®; LAKE WOBEGON®; LAKE WOBEGON MINNESOTA GATEWAY TO CENTRAL MINNESOTA®; LAKE WOBEGON WHIPPETS®; NEWS FROM LAKE WOBEGON®; PHC®; POWDERMILK BISCUITS®; THE COFFEE CLUB ORCHESTRA®; THE WRITER’S ALMANAC®; WHERE THE WOMEN ARE STRONG, THE MEN ARE GOOD LOOKING, AND ALL OF THE CHILDREN ARE ABOVE AVERAGE®.

The following are trademarks and service marks of Garrison Keillor: AMERICAN DUCT TAPE COUNCIL™; AMERICAN RADIO COMPANY™; AMERICAN RADIO COMPANY OF THE AIR™; BEBOP-A-REEBOP RHUBARB PIE™; BERTHA’S KITTY BOUTIQUE™; CHATTERBOX CAFE™; FEARMONGER’S SHOPPE™; FISHER’S COFFEE™; GARRISON KEILLOR’S AMERICAN RADIO COMPANY™; IT’S BEEN A QUIET WEEK IN LAKE WOBEGON™; LAKE WOBEGON JACK SUMUS QUID SUMUS™; L’UNIVERSITE DE LAC WOBEGON™; OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL RESPONSIBILITY™; PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION OF ENGLISH MAJORS™; SIDETRACK TAP™; WHIPPETS™.

I have nothing against protecting your work and your brand (it’s something I’m actually working on), but this is epic.

 You can’t link to this page without mentioning that it says at the top “Garrison Keillor sure owns a lot of words!”  They make fun of themselves about the fact that they own so many, they aren’t trying to be scary.